Quotes About Duty

You're feeling the responsibility for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people on your shoulder in a way that I couldn't feel as lieutenant governor.

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.

Every day, hundreds of thousands of men and women protect and serve, often putting their own lives at risk.

I am committed to protecting our country against the threat of terrorism.

After the threat of war is gone, we should not turn our backs on the men and women who eliminated that threat. We should embrace them and keep our promises we made to them.

Responsibility demands action, and dealing with the immediate threat must naturally be a top priority.

The first duty of any government is to protect its citizens, whether the threat is a domestic one or from abroad.

But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices.

King Edward VIII was forced to abdicate because he was determined to marry a divorced woman. As a result of that decision, the Queen's father, George VI, was obliged to lead the country through a war that threatened its survival, with all the personal pain portrayed in 'The King's Speech.'

Lebanon is caught in a cycle of threats. And it is our duty to be strong and capable of defending our country. But we will not clarify or explain what we do or do not possess.

I believe it is my responsibility as a member of Congress to ensure that I protect our country from any and all threats.

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.

It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure.

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.

Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.

Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.

Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus, it must be safeguarded.

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and the obligations of an oath require of me a particular course. Under such circumstances, whether I sink or swim on the tide of popular favor is, to me, a matter of inferior consideration.

Taking responsibility is not accepting blame instead of assigning it.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.