Quotes About Sacrifice

The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.

War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

You cannot barter manhood for peace.

We will breakfast together here and dine together in hell.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.

All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?

Having been born into the house of a warrior, one's intentions should be to grasp the long and the short swords and to die.

War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle.

More die in flight than in battle.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.

Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.

How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?

Happy are men who yet before they are killed Can let their veins run cold.

War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men!

I would never rob your cradles to feed the dogs of war

To be a mother is a great treasure. Mothers, in their unconditional and sacrificial love for their children, are the antidote to individualism; they are the greatest enemies against war.

War does not decide who is right but who is left.

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.