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

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 became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

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

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

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.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

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

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.

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.

I’ve studied authoritarianism for a very long time – for 40 years – and they’re started by people’s attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

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.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

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.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

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

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

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

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

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

What we all want is public safety. We don’t want rhetoric that’s framed through ideology.

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

I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

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.

I’m opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.

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

It’s in the best interest of the radical left types – best psychological and strategic interest – to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

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

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Jesus paid a tremendous price for us so we could have abundant life. He willingly took all of our sin on Himself and gave His life on the cross so we could be forgiven and have new life in Him.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

It’s a great thing about being pregnant – you don’t need excuses to pee or to eat.

Do you know something? The minute that blood sacrifice was accepted, Jesus was the first human being that was ever born again. Now that was real – it happened when he was in Hell.