We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future the health the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.

But at the end of the day we need to represent the taxpayers who have made enormous sacrifices. Many have lost their jobs. Many of them have seen their companies - they don't have a pension - they have seen their companies cut the match for their 401(k). They have seen their health care benefits be shredded.

Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?

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.

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance your prayers your sacrifice and he most humbly asks this of you.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.