William Wordsworth Quotes

David Robinson chose to stay at Navy. He talked about commitment, loyalty and values. I wonder how many of us would choose these virtues rather than the chance of becoming a millionaire, especially if you were a college sophomore when you had to make that choice.

I hate causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.

There are things a man must not do to save a nation.

And even if I were alone, ... I should have the consolation ... to the last moment of my existence ... that no word of mine has tended to the squandering of my country's treasure or the spilling of one single drop of my country's blood.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interest of the country.

Our people sacrifice a lot for their country, including their lives. None of them should have to sacrifice their integrity as well.

I care more about my country than I do about a 20-year-old pledge.

There’s no way I’m going to put myself through Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country.

Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. That is why young men die in battle for their countrys sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under.

It is not worth it to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son.

I haven't been able to grasp the concept of putting your life on the line for whatever reason people go into the military for. Some people just want to pay their bills, some people believe in their country and some people do it because their parents did it, but that's rough.

A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.

I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.

You are the epitome of the word selfless, you did something knowing you wouldn't be able to come home, knowing that your country would have very mixed feelings and yet your integrity on what you believe was right or wrong or should be public knowledge was more important to you than almost your own comfortability and the life that you had lived for so long. So I would like say thank you to him.

Well, there's nothing I've done I'm not proud of. Making money was an interest, but it's never been my god.

We value the individual. We probably put too much emphasis on the individual, if it comes right down to it. How many people, in the abstract, would...let's say Paige....how many people would she sacrifice to keep Andy alive? The answer wouldn't make any sense if you were looking at the whole of humanity as equals.

We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom.

If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their country?

It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live

When the life of the nation was attempted, when the cause of liberty and human rights called for their aid, they rushed forth to rally under the banner they loved, with grand singleness of purpose and heroic devotion--leaving all behind them, to meet toil and danger, hunger, sickness, wounds, and death, for nothing but the sublime satisfaction of doing their duty to their country and to mankind.

I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.

The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference.