Quotes about Sacrifice
We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
- Thomas Jefferson
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The most faithful disciples of Christ have been builders of peace, to the point of forgiving their enemies, sometimes even to the point of giving their lives for them.
- Pope John Paul II
We could afford the price of peace. Love is all it costs.
- Dolly Parton
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
- Ronald Reagan
Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.
- Ernest Hemingway
Who, cher monsieur, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I'd like to be and I shall be. Yes, we shall all be capable of it one day, and that will be salvation.
- Albert Camus
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
- John Adams
The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.
- John Adams
Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give. Their hearts are set on pleasing and cheering the person to whom the gift is given.
- Julian of Norwich
The ultimate purpose of marriage is not to make us happy but to glorify God.
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss