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Your Quotes for 25 October 2005 - Sacrifice

Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die,
Into the valley of Death
      Rode the six hundred.

It was all an error on the part of a messenger. Lord Raglan sent word to Lord Cardigan to advance, the message was short of details and misunderstood. Instead of riding past the artillery to take an undefended hill, on this day in 1854 the Light Brigade charged the guns. Of the 637 in that charge, fewer than 200 returned, 500 horses were lost, and the battle was a strategic setback for the British. But we all know the words of Tennyson's poem, and that battle, fought at Balaklava on this day in 1854, has come to symbolize courage and Sacrifice.

The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
     - Charles du Bois

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
     - John Foster Dulles, 1888 - 1959

The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.
     - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1869 - 1948

Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice, only the willingness to make it when necessary.
     - Frederick Sherwood Dunn, 1893 - 1962

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
     - Otto von Bismarck, 1815 - 1898

For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.
     - Rita Mae Brown

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