War And Sacrifice Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Top 45 War And Sacrifice Quotes
#1. 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. - Author: Barack Obama

#2. We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we will not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but on the positive affirmation of peace - Author: Martin Luther King Jr.

#3. The true soldier knows nothing but war, and the true soldier, for lack of an enemy, attacks himself. - Author: Dan Groat

#4. A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It will cost the world dearly. - Author: Rick Riordan

#5. Come on soldiers! Guardians and agents of the supreme law! Here is a sacrifice of dogs ready for your swords! - Author: Ilghazi

#6. The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. - Author: John Foster Dulles

#7. As I looked at the stains on the coral, I recalled some of the eloquent phrases of politicians and newsmen about how "gallant" it is for a man to "shed his blood for his country," and "to give his life's blood as a sacrifice," and so on. The words seemed ridiculous. Only the flies benefited. - Author: Eugene B. Sledge

#8. I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate. - Author: Sam Ervin

#9. Our lives laid down in war and peace may not
Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.
And that they may be is the only prayer
Worth praying. May my sacrifice
Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. - Author: Robert Frost

#10. I say this as the president of the country which has suffered more deaths, more blood and more sacrifices in this war - Author: Juan Manuel Santos

#11. I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother. - Author: Charles Farrar Browne

#12. You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it's not your fault. It's just how you were brought up- - Author: Cassandra Clare

#13. He never went to war, yet he emerged from the smog and shadows victorious. - Author: Asghar Abbas

#14. I invite all to trust in the merits and in the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Through His atoning sacrifice, we can gain the courage to win all the wars of our time, even in the midst of our difficulties, challenges, and temptations. Let us trust in His # love and power to save. - Author: Ulisses Soares

#15. I paid a visit to Yasukuni Shrine to pray for the souls of those who had fought for the country and made ultimate sacrifices. I have made a pledge never to wage war again, that we must build a world that is free from the sufferings of the devastation of war. - Author: Shinzo Abe

#16. Let me tell you what is coming ... Your fathers and husbands, your sons and brothers, will be herded at the point of the bayonet ... You may, after the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and of thousands of lives, as a bare possibility, win Southern independence ... but I doubt it. - Author: Sam Houston

#17. We are fighting for the distinction between sacrifice and mysticism, between energy and violence, between strength and cruelty, for that even finer distinction between the true and the false, between the man of the future and the cowardly gods you revere. - Author: Albert Camus

#18. Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends. - Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower

#19. Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble actions and that we were capable of sacrificing honor to a sense of efficacy. - Author: Linda Grant

#20. There are four things you need to know about war. One, every action requires careful tactics. Two, never lose hope and fight only for what is right. Three, be brave but you don't have to be fearless. And four, be willing to sacrifice. - Author: Courtney Allison Moulton

#21. Listen, son. You and I are professionals. If the manager says sacrifice, we lay down a bunt and let somebody else hit the homeruns. - Author: Frank Wead

#22. Throughout America today, we honor the dead of our wars. We recall their valor and their sacrifices. We remember they gave their lives so that others might live. - Author: Ronald Reagan

#23. This is truth: When you sacrifice your life, you must make fullest use of your weaponry. It is false not to do so, and to die with a weapon as yet undrawn. - Author: Miyamoto Musashi

#24. And there's this talk that we're asking soldiers to make the greatest sacrifice, but the reality is that civilians bear the burden of war more than the combatants. You're much more likely to get accidentally blown up or killed by a death squad than you are to die in a firefight. - Author: Michael Hastings

#25. We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle. - Author: John Green

#26. The Empire might have demanded that they sacrifice their souls, but at one point, the majority of those people had been no worse than any others. All that was good in them had been lost to the Empire and to the war; surely that was worth grieving for. - Author: Claudia Gray

#27. The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and less wasteful. - Author: Wendell Berry

#28. The only moral virtue of war is that it compels the capitalist system to look itself in the face and admit it is a fraud. It compels the present society to admit that it has no morals it will not sacrifice for gain. - Author: Helen Keller

#29. It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. - Author: Martin Luther King Jr.

#30. Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today. - Author: Mike Ferguson

#31. For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few. - Author: Charles Caleb Colton

#32. Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for. - Author: Christopher Hitchens

#33. The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood
This Eastertide call into mind the men,
Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should
Have gathered them and will do never again. - Author: Edward Thomas

#34. When the red wrath perisheth, when the dulled swords fail, These three who have walked with Death these shall prevail. Hell bade all its millions rise; Paradise sends three: Pity, and Self-sacrifice, and Charity. - Author: Theodosia Garrison

#35. Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed? ; 75
Also, as in war, the case, like a great bubbling cauldron of life itself, threw up both good and evil. Greed, madness, cruelty and indifference were countered by goodness, devotion, self-sacrifice, and courage. p 178 - Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#36. Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. - Author: Thomas Merton

#37. What we do with this peace-whether we preserve it and defend it, or whether we lose it and let it slip away-will be the measure of our worthiness of the spirit and sacrifice of the hundreds of thousands who gave their lives in two World Wars, Korea, and in Vietnam. - Author: Richard M. Nixon

#38. 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? - Author: Jim Sheeler

#39. War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is. - Author: Tim O'Brien

#40. This is not a love story. It is my life, and as such, there is love, loss, war, death, and sacrifice. It's about things that needed to be done and choices made. I regret nothing. - Author: Ann Aguirre

#41. Have we so soon forgotten those four years of terrible carnage, the greatest war of all time; forgotten the millions of men who gave their lives, who made the supreme sacrifice and who today, beneath the soil of France and Belgium, sleep the eternal sleep? - Author: Frank B. Kellogg

#42. The earth is four-fifths water, that's a lot of room to hide, so the great trick of naval warfare has always been to find the enemy before he finds you. You're finished, if you can't do that, and all the courage and sacrifice in the world simply adds up to a lost war. - Author: Alan Furst

#43. People with passion are people who will destroy - for a man's passion is not true until he proves how much he's willing to sacrifice for it. Will he kill? Will he go to war? Will he break and discard that which he has, all in the name of what he needs? - Author: Brandon Sanderson

#44. We should understand the limitations of war. We should understand the sacrifices our young men and women go through losing lives and limbs. And they should only do it for the highest of purposes. - Author: Rand Paul

#45. A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice. - Author: Wole Soyinka

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