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John McCain: American senator from Arizona, war hero and presidential nominee, 1936 to 2018.

Sacrifice for a cause greater than your self-interest, and you invest your lives with the eminence of that cause, your self-respect assured.

John McCain · The source reads: “Yet those who claim their liberty but not their duty to the civilization that ensures it, live a half-life, having indulged their self-interest at the cost of their self-respect.… Sacrifice for a cause greater than your self-interest, and you invest your lives with the eminence of that cause, your self-respect assured.” · Speech at Boston College convocation (September 18, 2006)

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