Quotes About Duty

DUTY, n. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true community, with all of us working together. Our mission is nothing less than to spark a renewed sense of obligation, a new sense of duty, a new season of service...

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

[F]reedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that "Oh, I don't get involved in politics," as if that makes you somehow cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

F]reedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that "Oh, I don't get involved in politics," as if that makes you somehow cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

We have a Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

When we ain't fightin' we should act like sojers

The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared. Some men get over their fright in a minute under fire. For some, it takes an hour. For some, it takes days. But a real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.

Two days after slapping Kuhl, he writes a memo to each of his commanders, ordering them not to allow men suffering from combat fatigue to receive medical care. "Such men are cowards and bring disgrace to their comrades," he writes, "whom they heartlessly leave to endure the danger of battle while they themselves use the hospital as a means of escape. You will see that such cases are not sent to the hospital." On

You either fight active evil or you accept it. Doing nothing is acceptance. There is no in-between.

That's my business." "Not if it involves breaking the law. Not if you don't want me to cloud up and rain all over you.

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Well, in the first place, military service, they don't call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy and valid vocation.

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

The lawyers in the Department of Justice have a long and storied tradition of defending the nation's interests and enforcing its laws - all of them, not just selective ones - in a manner worthy of the department's name.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

As someone who's spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda, I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.