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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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"It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other."
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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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"But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them."
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"When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?"
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"The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying."
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"Be willing to give up something you believe to be of value to get something of greater value."
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"Self-denial is the first quality of love."
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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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"A gift involves sacrifice. If you give away something that you no longer value or want, it cannot be a gift. It is simply a discarded item."
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"This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice."
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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."
Sacrifice
"There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered."
Men
"Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force."
God
"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?"
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"If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder."
Man
"Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive."
Tax
"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
"I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time."
Time
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