We can offer up much in the la...

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~

Too long a sacrifice can make ...

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O. When may it suffice?

~William Butler Yeats~

The stern hand of fate has sco...

The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation -- the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.

~David Lloyd George~

The mice which helplessly find...

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

~Mahatma Gandhi~

Sacrifice, which is the passio...

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

~Henri Frederic Amiel~

Sacrifice still exists everywh...

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

~Henri Frederic Amiel~

Only he can understand what a ...

Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.

~Antoine de Saint-Exupery~

Only he can understand what a ...

Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.

~Antoine de Saint-Exupery~

In this world it is not what w...

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

~Henry Ward Beecher~

In everyday things the law of ...

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

~James A. Froude~

If anyone is crazy enough to w...

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.

~John Fitzgerald Kennedy~