The change we seek has always required great struggle and great sacrifice.
Throughout history, those who have known the horror of war -- and the love behind all great sacrifice -- have tried to put those emotions into words.
Tony Odierno, who made a great sacrifice here in Iraq on behalf of his country and was awarded the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star with a V for Valor.
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Nor has our progress come without great sacrifice.
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It should be clear to everybody, he does so at great personal sacrifice to himself and to his family.
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Send me, no matter how great the sacrifice I am called to make.
But the widespread view - including, from what I can gather, that of the prime minister - is that most of them don't make any great financial sacrifice.
In fiction, we can have tragic figures that redeem themselves with great acts of sacrifice.
"I've had the great honor and privilege to witness great courage and sacrifice for America's sake, " he said.
Monti, whose own election bid to stay on as premier was soundly rejected by angry voters, telephoned Napolitano to thank him for having agreed "with great spirit of sacrifice" to continue.
Now if these business leaders were making some great personal financial sacrifice when creating employment, generating tax revenues for the benefit of the nation, boosting the values of our pensions and so on, then presumably they would deserve to be drenched in honours from all parts of this great nation.
Taken individually, none of these steps may seem to be an undue hardship, a sacrifice too great to make in the interest of securing an elusive peace.
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The vast majority of us are as supportive as are Americans of other ethnic origins when it comes to our troops and the national interests they are asked to defend at great personal risk and sacrifice.
We unite, recognizing that such crises call on all of us to act, recognizing that there but for the grace of God go I, recognizing that life's most sacred responsibility -- one affirmed, as Hillary said, by all of the world's great religions -- is to sacrifice something of ourselves for a person in need.
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We are grateful to all those who wear the uniform of our Armed Forces and serve and sacrifice on behalf of our great nation.
While Teddy Ballgame survived WWII and Korea, I was wondering what great American athletes have made the ultimate sacrifice so we can be free today.
Since the days of Franklin Roosevelt, and the service and sacrifice of our grandparents and great-grandparents, our country has borne a special burden in global affairs.
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Because our parents and our grandparents and our great-grandparents were willing to work and sacrifice for us.
These newly released men might fairly have believed that they had achieved a great social victory through their actions and their sacrifice.
And all this work depends on the courage and sacrifice of those who serve in dangerous places at great personal risk - our diplomats, our intelligence officers, and the men and women of the United States Armed Forces.
Every great origin story has a combination of two elements, prodigious talent and sacrifice.
"I hope it will give us the chance to thank and remind ourselves of the sacrifice that was made by so many people who are part of a great generation of heroes for our country, " he said.
We've just been having a barbecue in the gardens of Number 10 Downing Street with some of our service -- armed-service personnel from the United States and from the UK. And it was a great reminder of the incredible debt that we owe all of them and their families for their service, for their sacrifice, for all they do to keep us safe.
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