The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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.

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

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

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

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

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

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

You don’t carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

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

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

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

One thing I just want to say to the military families – while you might not wear a uniform, I know – we all know, the nation knows – that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.

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

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

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

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

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

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

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.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn’t sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours‘ writing. Nothing.

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

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.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

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.

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.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

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.

I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn’t do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.

It was the Congress that imposed ‚Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,‘ it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

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.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

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

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

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

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

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

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

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.

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.

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.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

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.

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.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.