Quotes about Sacrifice
The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.
- Cicero
The call for a sincere gift of self is the fullest way to realize our personal freedom.
- Pope John Paul II
Freedom always comes with a price.
- CS Lewis
Freedom is never free.
- Maya Angelou
To the patriots I say this: Take that long eternal look. Stand up for freedom, no matter what the cost. Stand up and be counted. It can help to save your soul-and maybe your country.
- Ezra Taft Benson
I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.
- Zachary Taylor
It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.
- Cicero
Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.
- Winston Churchill
Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout
- Alice Walker
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction
- Ronald Reagan