#sacrificed

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed. ↗

— LeVar Burton

#children #decade #funding #last #machinery

While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed. ↗

— John Engler

#bill #completion #day #delay #every

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#fails #great #hearts #people #revolution

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 most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#always #expediency #most #principle #sacrificed

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one. ↗

— Henry Miller

#bad one #bit #good #idea #people

A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what I did in bringing Terry on board. I didn't see it that way. ↗

— Bryan Robson

#bringing #close #did #doing #i

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

Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#being #billion #dollars #entitlement #even

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

#country #farm #fill #fought #heart