Sacrifice Quotes

“Come now, whoever of you has wounds, let him strip and show them, and I will show mine in turn.”

“There is no part of my body, in front at any rate, remaining free from wounds.”

"It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced."

"The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom."

"They summed up and perfected, by one supreme act, the highest virtues of men and citizens."

James A. Garfield

"For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue."

James A. Garfield

"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."

Joseph Campbell

"If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

"If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England."

Rupert Brooke

"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it."

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty."

"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."

Calvin Coolidge

"Freedom - no word was ever spoken that has held out greater hope, demanded greater sacrifice, needed more to be nurtured, blessed more the giver, damned more its destroyer, or came closer to being God's will on earth."

Omar N. Bradley

"They died for liberty - they died for us. They are at rest. They sleep in the land they made free, under the flag they rendered stainless."

Robert G. Ingersoll

"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."

Theodore Roosevelt

"A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie."

Tenneva Jordan

"Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love."

J. K. Rowling

"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."

Kahlil Gibran

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

"We gain freedom when we have paid the full price."

"Every blow on my body will be a nail in the coffin of the British Empire."

Lala Lajpat Rai