Duty Quotes

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

Love can do much, but duty more.

It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.

It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers.

A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.

They held it their duty to live but for their country.

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.

I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.

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