Quotes About Duty

"Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,But spare your country's flag," she said.

Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty; Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing curves of beauty.

We the unwilling, led by the unqualified to kill the unfortunate, die for the ungrateful.

Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.

From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.

How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you?

God and the soldier We like adore In times of danger Not before

TO THE FALLEN Sleep my sons, your duty done For Freedom's light has come. Sleep in the silent depths of the sea Or in your bed of hallowed sod Until you hear at dawn the low, Clear reveille of God.

La gente se sacrifica sin cesar para que otros puedan vivir. Los soldados en combate. Los bomberos en un edificio en llamas. Los policías en las calles de una ciudad. ¿Es tú vida tan feliz, tan productiva y tan importante para que asumamos automáticamente que es más valiosa que lo que podría costar?

Admiro al salmón porque comprendo lo que significa ser empujado por fuerzas que los demás no pueden ver, sentir ni oír, y percibir la obligación de un deber más importante que uno mismo.

um nicht in einem völkerrechtswidrigen, unmoralischen Krieg zu kämpfen." "Der Reporter

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.

It is your duty and responsibility to become successful,

I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there.

He was aware of the irony that he who prized his freedom and willingness to seek the truth had been happiest when he had a defined purpose, a sense of duty and obligation, and a specific destination in mind.

The claim that values are not objective, are not part of the fabric of the world, is meant to include not only moral goodness, which might be most naturally equated with moral value, but also other things that could be more loosely called moral values or disvalues—rightness and wrongness, duty, obligation, an action's being rotten and contemptible, and so on. It also includes non-moral values, notably aesthetic ones, beauty and various kinds of artistic merit.

Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.

submission to government be every one's duty

When any such declaration of God's intention is produced, it will be our duty to believe God intends it so; but till that be done, our author must show us some better warrant, before we shall be obliged to receive him as the authentic revealer of God's intentions.

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

police explain that the job of protecting people is their own,

I've heard enough about what you want to do; now tell me what needs doing

It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is…. If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each…. This is of the very essence of judicial duty.

It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.