Quotes About Sacrifice

Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price.

I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.

War will make corpses of us all.

not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

If any of you get hernias in this tug-of-war against the Army, I'll pay to get them fixed.

¨ Oh, I´m not complaining. I know there´s a war on. I know a lot of people are going to have to suffer for us to win it. But why must I be one of them?¨

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

Call him drunken Ira Hayes, he won't answer any more. Not the whiskey drinking Indian, nor the Marine that went to war.

War is good business Invest your son

Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms.

How can a man commit acts of martial valour if he values his life?

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.

I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.

A nation that sends its women to fight its wars is not worth defending.

The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas. Soldiers tied rags on their feet. Red footprints wrote on the snow...

If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.

A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.

Any victory would be dear at such a price.