A patriot is someone who's prepared to sacrifice anything, even other people's children, for a just cause.

You go into battle fully prepared to sacrifice some of your own.

He understood now why terrorists were prepared to sacrifice themselves for the good of some cause.

You must be prepared to sacrifice in order to succeed.

Or maybe he would be prepared to sacrifice his own men to get you.

But he was not yet prepared to sacrifice his potential benefit to the cause.

She had fully expected to be caught and was prepared to sacrifice herself.

And had he been prepared to sacrifice safety, the warmth of family, as its price?

I was prepared to sacrifice them to a greater good.

He had been prepared to sacrifice anyone and anything to his ambition.