Quotes About Soldier Sacrifice

#1. Soldier= sacrifice on the altar of power

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#2. David was at his best in group settings, soldier enough to join in the raucous jests, king enough to make it matter that he remembered some moments of bravery or sacrifice, and praised each man accordingly.

Geraldine Brooks

#3. In relation to the immense sacrifices that the state demands of the individual through the blood tax, it seems rather incidental whether it compensates the soldier more or less abundantly for the loss of time that he suffers from his military-service obligation.

Ludwig Von Mises

#4. President Bush is often out there talking about the importance of staying the course, and about the sacrifice, but he has not attended a funeral of a soldier who has fallen in Iraq.

Dana Milbank

#5. New links must be forged as old ones rust.

Jane Howard

#6. Adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#7. Poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

Walt Whitman

#8. I've had people tell me to get over it. I politely tell them, 'How about if I chop off your finger and see if it grows back?

Jim Sheeler

#9. But now inquiry is being made concerning these issues. First, can any believer enlist in the military? Second, can any soldier, even those of the rank and file or lesser grades who neither engage in pagan sacrifices nor capital punishment, be admitted into the church? No on both counts.

Tertullian

#10. A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.

Criss Jami

#11. In the aftermath, we are because they were.

RJ Heller

#12. Honer and self sacrifice. Death does not diminish these qualities in a soldier. We shall remember.

Eric S. Nylund

#13. So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Ibrahim Rugova

#14. Soldiers who always remain faithful to their nation, who are always prepared to sacrifice their lives, are invincible.

Subhas Chandra Bose

#15. For how little have we lost, when the two finest things of all will accompany us wherever we go, universal nature and our individual virtue.

Seneca.

#16. She's lazy, so i'm not sure when she had time to build that wall she has surrounding her.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#17. When we stand up for what we believe in - for what's right - there is always a chance that we risk the very things we fight for: our safety, our lives, our freedom. But if we stand down, the risk is definite.

Kelseyleigh Reber

#18. I've got guns now. It's kind of gross.

Emily Blunt

#19. Anyone who met him today would say, *Soldier. Fighter.* They would want him on their team. As a mother she was willing to engage in pride over fear and to admit the possibility that his sacrifice was hers, too. His sacrifice was something she had been able to give her country.

Lea Carpenter

#20. I stopped eating beef at 13 and stopped eating all meat a few years ago. I would feel guilty that what was on my plate was walking around yesterday. Either I could live with that or stop eating meat. I choose the latter, and I'm happier for it.

Carrie Underwood

#21. Memoirs have at their heart a content that "happened" to someone in real life. Is that what you are itching at in your question, so that if you are a reviewer or you are writing a critique you might feel as if you are stepping on someone's actual face?

Lidia Yuknavitch

#22. A soldier's mind is made of rock; the heart of a candle.

Srinivas Shenoy

#23. Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.

Wendy Davis

#24. Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

Mark Twain

#25. The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere.

Magha

#26. It is probably true that I would not have had as many children or mothers in my books without being a mother with children. It is definitely true that I would not have written about the Civil War without having a little guy who was obsessed with it.

Marly Youmans

#27. I felt like I was being carried over the threshold of a sisterhood of loss. I knew I was not walking alone, and that eventually I would bob back up to the surface of the deep, because the women around me showed me what healing looks like.

Anna White

#28. You have to be willing to sacrifice as much to prevent war, as soldiers are willing to sacrifice to wage war.

Jodie Evans

#29. The true soldier knows nothing but war, and the true soldier, for lack of an enemy, attacks himself.

Dan Groat

#30. Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to the dot-age of the university.'

W. W. Rouse Ball

#31. A lot of people let me down ... A lot of people I thought were my friends turned on me.

Lil' Kim

#32. The soldier 's courage and sacrifice is full of glory , expressing devotion to country , to cause, to comrades in arms. But war itself is never glorious , and we must never trumpet it as such.

Barack Obama