#sacrificed

I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty. ↗

— Davy Crockett

#country #disgrace #done #duty #elected

The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#cause #comrades #fellows #home #industry

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence. ↗

— Jane Rule

#citizens #had #individuals #instead #life

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else. ↗

— Richard Hofstadter

#being #center #character #criticism #else

Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve. ↗

— Tammy Baldwin

#constitutional #democracy #freedom #greater #hope

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#death #desire #die #even #everything

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments. ↗

— Alexandra Kosteniuk

#accompanying #army #career #chess #continue

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#archimedes #familiar #his #life #now

I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame. ↗

— Jeff Buckley

#fame #father #his #i #me

Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile. ↗

— James Norman Hall

#abominations #automobile #been #charm #communities