No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner – that’s way harder than what I have to do.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

It’s time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.

My mother did not like children.

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

Folks, you’re the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed to keep your companies open. Because of your productivity, the combined auto companies have committed to invest another $23 billion in expansion in America.

Sorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

There’s people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you’re compassionate.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

I am very strict about what I eat. I do not consume anything that my body does not require. It takes a lot of sacrifice and discipline. It wasn’t easy before but now its second nature for me.

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

I’m a conservative, but I’m not a nut about it.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

For an Ethiopian mother, if you have a chubby kid, it means you’re doing something good.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president’s.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.