Sacrifice is a virtue only ...

Sacrifice is a virtue only when it is necessary, otherwise, it is a waste.
Sacrifice is a virtue only when it is necessary, otherwise, it is a waste.
 José Martí

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When you have war, whether it's a war against drugs, war against terrorism, war overseas, the mentality of the people change and they're more willing to sacrifice their liberties in order to be safe and secure.
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
When a warrior goes down, you pick up his shield and go play in honor of him.
 Chip Kelly
We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.
 Steven Pressfield
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.

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Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
 Jose Marti
It is the duty of man to raise up man.
 Jose Marti
Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. If they knew its charms, the dignity that accompanies it, how much a free man feels like a king, the perpetual inner light that is produced by decorous self-awareness and realization, perhaps there would be no greater friends of freedom than those who are its worst enemies.
 Jose Marti
Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
 Jose Marti
This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.
 Jose Marti