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Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them.

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

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

At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

Across the country, people are willing to tighten their belts and sacrifice. The president should ask the oil industry to do the same.

A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities.

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

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

We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.

That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.

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

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.