Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.
~By Joe Barton ~
Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.
~By Bernadette Devlin ~
My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.
~By Kenneth Joseph Arrow ~
He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
~By Henry Taylor ~
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
~By Steve Prefontaine ~
History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.
~By Timothy Pawlenty ~
No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain.
~By Frederica Montseny ~
A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
~By Amy Lowell ~
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.
~By Thomas Merton ~
I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.
~By John L. Lewis ~
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
~By Voltaire ~
If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.
~By Jane Rule ~
Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!
~By Mother Jones ~
It is not sacrifice if you love what you're doing.
~By Mia Hamm ~
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
~By Franz Liszt ~
My son is not wild about going back to Iraq, but he'd sure rather do that than sacrifice all that he and his fellow soldiers have accomplished by leaving too early and inviting chaos.
~By Kit Bond ~
I think the kind of career I've had, something would have had to be sacrificed.
~By Pauline Frederick ~
The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world's bulwark of liberty.
~By Steve Buyer ~
I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.
~By Charles Farrar Browne ~
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice.
~By Tom Coburn ~
There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.
~By Stefan Zweig ~
Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices.
~By Lesley Garrett ~
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.
~By William Barclay ~
Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
~By Stanislaw Lec ~
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
~By Edmund Burke ~
Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.
~By Laurence Olivier ~
Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
~By Boris Spassky ~
But only if I believe that my directing talents will improve the material I'd be working on. I want to make sure I don't sacrifice beautiful material on the altar of my direction.
~By Andre Braugher ~
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
~By James M. Barrie ~
Time is the thing. A show like this pulls all your time away from you. Usually I'll get home from work on a Saturday about 10am (after doing night shooting) and I'll sleep until Saturday afternoon. Saturday night and Sunday I'm usually feeling wiped out and I've not seen Holly all week. It's a pretty full-on life, but what do you do? I love my work and there are sacrifices.
~By Alex O'Loughlin ~
Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers.
~By Zack Wamp ~
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
~By Emma Goldman ~
Much has been accomplished during the last year in the campaign against terrorism. This struggle will require vigilance, perseverance and sacrifice for many years to come.
~By Paul Cellucci ~
My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.
~By Lasse Hallstrom ~
Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
~By Tammy Baldwin ~
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
~By Florence Nightingale ~
Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them.
~By Mark Pryor ~
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
~By Theodore Parker ~
If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.
~By Auberon Herbert ~
The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.
~By Jeff Miller ~
I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.
~By Oriana Fallaci ~
There is good in everything; it's just how you choose to look at it. Everything that's worth it has a price. For me to be a model - I had to leave my family. Do you think I liked that? No! There are sacrifices. Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.
~By Gisele Bundchen ~
I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
~By Bob Riley ~
I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.
~By Edward Everett ~
The problem that faces our country today, the last 30 years we have lived off the future, and the bill is coming due. So there cannot be anything that is not put on the table. There will not be one American that will not be called to sacrifice. Those that are more well-to-do will be called to sacrifice to a greater extent.
~By Tom Coburn ~
I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
~By Muriel Rukeyser ~
A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.
~By Wilhelm Steinitz ~
After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?
~By Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao ~
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
~By Joan of Arc ~
Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.
~By John M. McHugh ~
There is no rank in sacrifice.
~By Josephus Daniels ~
In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
~By James Allen ~
Sometimes the band can't fully hear your fill, so they come in differently. So I've also learned not to really step out too much, because you sacrifice the band when you do that.
~By John Otto ~
Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice.
~By Lee Harvey Oswald ~
I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble jihad... until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people.
~By Mohammed Omar ~
The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise - and to the best in benefits and medical care.
~By Sue Kelly ~
No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that.
~By Anatoly Karpov ~
At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.
~By Dave Reichert ~
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
~By Michael Novak ~
I'm a married man and I've got two children, and you have to do sacrifices.
~By Glenn Tipton ~
People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story.
~By Len Wein ~
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
~By Edmund Burke ~
The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked.
~By Keith Miller ~
If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.
~By Trevor Nunn ~
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.
~By John Buford ~
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?
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
~By Jose Marti ~
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
~By William Butler Yeats ~
Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.
~By Dean Kamen ~
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
~By Germaine Greer ~
I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
~By William Tecumseh Sherman ~
America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.
~By Allen Boyd ~
Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.
~By George Santayana ~
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.
~By John Foster Dulles ~
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
~By Ernest Renan ~
A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
~By Kemal Ataturk ~
In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
~By Idi Amin ~
But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices.
~By King Albert II ~
In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
~By James Anthony Froude ~
When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
~By Paul Klee ~
Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.
~By Bob Riley ~
Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
~By Garrett Hardin ~
It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other.
~By Alva Noto ~
A number of us had conversations with the Kerry campaign about what he was going to say about CAFE. What he told us was that he did not want to sacrifice jobs and that he wanted to work with the auto industry to achieve that goal.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.
~By Thomas Francis Meagher ~
I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!
~By James McAvoy ~
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