Quotes About Duty

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?

My father had been a copper miner, uncles and grandfathers worked in the mines for the Union Pacific. So to me, sitting at a desk all day was not only a privilege but a duty: something I owed to all those people in my life, living and dead, who'd had so much more to say than anyone ever got to hear.

A man who is a good lover to his wife is his children's best friend.… Child care is play to a woman who is happy. And only a man can make a woman happy. In deepest truth, a father's first duty to his children is to make their mother feel fulfilled as a woman.

I knew Rome was burning, but I had just enough water to scrub the floors, so I did what I could.

Heroes may be less than heroic, while the common man saves the day.

First, I got myself born. The worst of the job was up to me.

Maybe it was just a father's duty to resist a daughter's drift toward another man.

Willa's lifelong service to the duty of proper order now seemed like an idiot's game.

Barry Eisler

Barry Eisler

Sacrifice was the duty only of the few, who were of course hypocritically lauded by the many, the latter barely pausing in their infantile partying to wish the soldiers good luck at war.

Barry Eisler

Sacrifice was the duty only of the few, who were of course hypocritically lauded by the many, the latter barely pausing in their infantile partying to wish the soldiers good luck at war. But

Barry Eisler

The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.

Law enforcement: a case of good men doing bad chores.

My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." In

1. MANLY MEN DO MANLY THINGS. 2. MANLY MEN TEND THEIR FIELDS. 3. MANLY MEN BUILD MANLY MEN. 4. MANLY MEN LIVE TO THE GLORY OF GOD.

People are motivated by a variety of reasons. Ideology, passion, duty, loyalty. Some by personal gain.

But guns are not the whole story. In Switzerland, every adult male is issued an assault rifle for militia duty and is allowed to keep the gun at home. On a per capita basis, Switzerland has more firearms than just about any other country, and yet it is one of the safest places in the world. In other words, guns do not cause crime.

In Switzerland, every adult male is issued an assault rifle for militia duty and is allowed to keep the gun at home. On a per capita basis, Switzerland has more firearms than just about any other country, and yet it is one of the safest places in the world.

I have always been a patriot, Brandt. In order to be a truly effective soldier, one must believe in one's country, is that not so?

Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.