Quotes About Duty

Our Armed Forces, past and present have already waited too long for us to protect them.

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

The thing that all police officers decide when they wake up in the morning is that they're going home.

You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve.

I do feel sorry for the Prince of Wales, waiting and waiting, while his mother looks better and better. She's not staying on because of any concern about his abilities as a king. The Queen simply feels she must do her duty, and she's never even contemplated abdication.

The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.

I will not betray my country.

If you've been willing to put your life on the line to do something important for your country or your state, putting your job on the line is really not a very big deal.

Responsibility and accountability is a big part of being in the military.

I'm very pro-military. It's a big part of my life I don't talk about much or get to access much in my work.

'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.

You pay your bills and you take care of your family, or you're not a man.

I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring.

I'm not a believer in bringing back the draft. But I am a huge proponent of national service.

Bruce Rauner needs to lead, and until he does, we must fight to hold him accountable.

Respect the burden.

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

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander.

I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.

Every generation of Americans who has fought, every generation of Americans who has served, has suffered.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.