Quotes About Duty

This is the true inheritance tax of life. Behaviours and habits, ingrained, your own but not your own, a duty on your existence, a tariff to be levied on those who try to love you.

Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive... it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government...it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security." —THOMAS JEFFERSON The Declaration of Independence

It is not enough to feel reverence; one must act reverently.

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

Talent is an accident of genes — and a responsibility.

Personal interests have no importance compared to national interests.

While we don't have the authority on the state level to change federal policy, my fellow governors and I do have a duty to protect our states' citizens, and we have a personal responsibility to act when we have the power to do so.

Personal responsibility matters.

Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.

The worst form of violence is the assault on uniformed personnel.

I love to follow truth; nay, I have made it my duty to persuade others to act on truth and abjure falsehood for the sake of their own good. So, the eradication of iniquities is the object of my life.

It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.

Prince Philip is conscious of his place in the heritage of the Royal Family.

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.

When I was picked to fly the X-1, it was my duty to fly it, and I did.

One of the core pillars of the modern American conservative movement is its emphasis on personal responsibility.

And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress.

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.

Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.