#sacr

Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq's national unity government. ↗

— John Boehner

#american troops #assess #before #began #bravery

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#continual #extinction #personality #progress #self-sacrifice

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#fallen #heroes #individually #invoke #our

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed. ↗

— Epictetus

#our #place #religion #sacrificed #same

The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#blind #cause #dangerous #decisiveness #exists

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#got #nature #nothing #nowadays #out

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#envy #even #insignificant #kind #most

Our nation's military and law enforcement personal work hard to protect us. We must thank them for their continued vigilance. Without their sacrifice we would less capable of protecting our nation. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#continued #enforcement #hard #law #law enforcement

When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#discharged #express #food #gratitude #hand

I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor. ↗

— Edward Everett

#before #dawn #feel #fellow-men #gratitude