Quotes About Sacrifice

I am asking of no man more than I myself was ready throughout four years to do

All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated.

There are times when a corps commander's life does not count.

He has lost his left arm, but I my right.

On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step

The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3

Care for him who shall have borne the battle

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

No president can easily commit our sons and daughters to war.

This is the soldier brave enough to tellThe glory-dazzled world that "war is hell":Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife,And rides through hell to save his country's life.

War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.

I will stand off the forces of the entire country here... and die a resplendent death.

War is not won by victory.

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.

Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.

No one wins a war. It is true, there are degrees of loss, but no one wins.

No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.

Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war.

You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?

War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.