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"If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force."
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"Christmas is God being relentless to the point that He would die in that relentlessness."
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"Truth often sacrificed for the sake of stability and peace."
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"Employment sells out the future life."
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"We have errantly romanticized love as something we freely get verses something we sacrifice for in the giving."
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"Because what my gradmother did with her fine coat (the loveliest thing she would ever own) is what all women of that generation (and before) did for their families and their husbands and their children. They cut up the finest and proudest parts of themselves and gave it all away. They repatterned what was theirs and shaped it for others. They went without. They were the last ones to eat at supper, and they were the first ones to get up every morning, warming the cold kitchen for another day spent caring for everyone else. This was the only thing they knew how to do. This was their guiding verb and their defining principle of life: They gave."
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"Then Percy let go of his tiny ledge, and together, holding hands, he and Annabeth fell into the endless darkness."
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"Someone needs to fight, someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero."
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"Life demands death to self."
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"We became God's carriers because of the sacrifice of Jesus."
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"Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to."
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"Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive."
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"If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves."
Government
"The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them."
Power
"I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time."
Time
"There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered."
Men
"If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder."
Man
"Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?"
Morality
"It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation."
Tax
"How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?"
Act
"If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force."
Sacrifice
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