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Quotes About Duty

I think there is no greater job anybody can have than having been a prosecutor.
~ Merrick Garland
I am humbled by the prospect of serving those who have borne the battle, those American men and women who have sacrificed so much.
~ Robert Wilkie
Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
~ Ronald Reagan
I made it to protect the motherland.
~ Mikhail Kalashnikov
It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country.
~ Joseph Hume
It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had a responsibility to try to protect the Royal Family or if you like protect the Monarchy from the assaults of the media.
~ Max Hastings
A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.
~ Brad Henry
I have appealed to the constitution and laws of my country; if they fail to protect me, I appeal to God, and with Him I cheerfully rest my cause. I can die at my post, but I cannot desert it.
~ Elijah Parish Lovejoy
The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.
~ Leon Panetta
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.
~ John Dalberg-Acton
Our officers are on the front lines - the first to show up on the scene of a crime. They should be respected; not ridiculed. They and their families protected; not put at risk.
~ Doug Ducey
I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
~ Al Franken
Protecting the rights of service members was an important part of my work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.
~ Tom Perez
As Democrats, we have a patriotic duty and political imperative to lay out our ideas for protecting America.
~ Evan Bayh
Hungary will stop at nothing when it comes to protecting its citizens.
~ Viktor Orban
Disney World is exactly the wrong description of how the Secret Service should operate in public. Their jobs are not about pleasing adults and children, but rather protecting the president and the first family.
~ Bob Beckel
For my part, let me be clear: protecting those in society most at risk of harm, those crushed at the bottom of the heap, those who have been abused by the very people who should have looked after them, is, as home secretary, my job, but I also see it is as my moral duty.
~ Amber Rudd
There is no more important responsibility than protecting human health and the environment. It is a responsibility I take very seriously.
~ Andrew R. Wheeler
The men and women who put their lives on the line every day, often under very dangerous circumstances are true heroes and they deserve every protection that we can give them. They serve and protect our communities and our families.
~ John Bel Edwards
Players who take a knee during the national anthem do so to protest injustice across the country - fulfilling a patriotic duty to never accept injustice, but to call it out when we see it.
~ Ayanna Pressley
As an American, you have the right to protest me or another individual or a group, but I believe that protesting the United States for the mistakes it has made - when it gave you the freedom to do so in the first place - is disrespectful.
~ Markwayne Mullin
Governments do have the duty to protect national interest. But we should not be afraid of foreign funding of Indian CSOs, unless malintent can be proved.
~ Rohini Nilekani
First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government.
~ Stephen Harper