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No sacrifice short of individual liberty, individual self-respect, and individual enterprise is too great a price to pay for permanent read more
No sacrifice short of individual liberty, individual self-respect, and individual enterprise is too great a price to pay for permanent peace.
We humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our read more
We humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entreched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane.
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens read more
As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love.
Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love.
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats' teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.
The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats' teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
