Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.

Life is made up not of great sacrifices or duties but of little things in which smiles and kindness and small obligations given habitually are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice and is never the result of selfishness.

Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program every individual we are all going to have to sacrifice.

The idea of redemption is always good news even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

When bad men combine the good must associate else they will fall one by one an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

A man who was completely innocent offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others including his enemies and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.