Quotes About Duty

Where the interests of truth are at actual stake, we ought, perhaps, to sacrifice even that which is our own--if, at least, we are to lay any claim to a philosophic spirit.

In the work of government, reason is the architect; it is the part of reason to command, and the duty of weakness and of passion to obey.

At the core, to be a man you had to be willing to lose your life in battle, willing to use your strength to protect the weak. Who today was remembering all that?

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.

Our quality of life and our way of life is dependent on the Royal Navy and the other Armed Forces.

Being queen is overrated.

She's my mother and the Queen.

Sure, I'd take the responsibility of queen any day.

I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.

The Queen is a true professional and calmly pinned my MBE on.

Prince Philip protected the Queen and made her laugh.

My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the century. He was killed in the line of duty. My father, who was 16, was the oldest son, so he had to quit school and go to work to support his mother.

European exporters will be paying twice as much duty on stuff they sell to the U.K. because they sell twice as much stuff as we sell to them. We would then have quite a lot of money to support our industries in ways that we choose when we leave the E.U.

I've always had something much more than money, which is respect. When I was champion, people looked into my heart and some said, 'We may not like Mr Eubank, but we respect him. He fights beyond the call of duty and he never quits.'

I'll play some 'UFC,' 'Call of Duty' sometimes too. What else I play? I play some racing games.

If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.

Whenever anyone asks me what I did in the service, I just tell him I was a member of the famed 'Remington Raiders.'

I was raised to believe that we all have a civic duty and a responsibility as Americans to improve our neighborhoods and our nation.

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

You ran away and left us to do the job that you could not do.