Quotes About Duty

We are all equal on this floor, and a senator must keep his word.

My job is to enforce the laws of Florida.

I would rather not to have to fly across the country at all, but obviously, as a federal party leader, I do.

First and foremost, my job is to protect the American people.

First and foremost, the onus is on yourself to perform your own duties. If you can't, then it's your family or community's job to support you. If that still doesn't work out, then the government will take responsibility to protect you.

And we forget because we must and not because we will.

Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.

I fought for this country.

It is true that the Thackerays have never fought elections. But we have never backed out from responsibilities.

I believe that we have a duty to look frankly at the social conditions around us and to work to do what we can to address the specific needs which we find.

In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

My philosophy is always to fulfill contracts.

I shall fulfill my contract, no more nor less.

The military is diverse and large, and it's public: it serves a public function; it serves a public duty.

It is the government's fundamental duty to ensure the security of every individual citizen.

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able to tell a good lie in answer to a charge.

He was presumably a lover. They did things like commanding battalions. And worse!

He had the very greatest admiration. He admire her for her truthfulness, for her cleanness of mind, and the clean-run-ness of her limbs, for her efficiency, for the fairness of her skin, for the gold of her hair, for her religion, for her sense of duty. It was a satisfaction to take her about with him.

there are times when to a poor priest the rule of the Church as regards marriage seems bitter hard

Christ was a sort of an Englishman, and Englishmen did not, as a rule, refuse to do their jobs .

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori," he said solemnly. It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country.

Even a future monarch doesn't always want to do what she is supposed to do.