Quotes About Duty

I have always had the suspicion that officers assigned to front desk duty were chosen by cunning supervisors because of their skills in obfuscation and disinformation.

I'm going to have to go out there. She had a mother and a brother. See who's still around and can look at this thing. Harry, you sure you-- You think I have a choice?

Okay, Harry. We can work cases. But we bend the rules. We don't break them.

Those five words…"the good of the department." They never added up to anything but high jingo.

That's my job, to forge the blade. To sharpen it. To use it without mercy or conscience. To be the truth in a place where everybody lies.

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The Germans. They will always do the job they are given no matter what.

The public-health officer is like the garbage disposal," she said. "Whatever issue can't be filed into someone else's box or slot winds up in the health officer's.

I'm not saying nothing, excepting to say it were done because it were needed to be done. There were lives needed saving. And there's an end to it. Lie isn't about medals. Now off you go, and leave me be. I got my lighthouse to look after.' And he just turned and walked away.

We remember the Spartan ambassador who, being asked in whose name he had come, replied: 'In the name of the State, if I succeed; if I fail, in my own.' [See Plutarch, 'Lycurgus', Lives, tr. J. Langhorne and W. Langhorne (London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, nd [1898]), pp. 40–1:

And that would be unconscionable, I suppose, to feel any obligation? Yes. Of course it would. Katherine cliffton The English Patient

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.

A policeman must know everything - and not tell. He must know where all the sin is and not partake.

Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

As the Bible inculcates upon man but one duty in respect to sin, and that is immediate repentance, abolitionists believe that all who hold slaves, or who approve the practice in others, should immediately cease to do so.

The police and the army do their job honestly and sincerely. They are devoted to the country.

Imagine feeling like every kiss goodbye to your loved ones each day might be your last kiss. Police officers and their families feel this way every single day.

I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.

But, sir, I shall take the path of duty and shall not swerve from it.

If someone comes to me with a script and says, 'Sir, this hero...' I'm like, 'Is there a name, or he is just called a hero?' We are not heroes. Heroes are people fighting for us at the border. We are not heroes; we are just doing our job.

My father is a retired Navy officer; my sister is in the army. For me, defence services have been close to my heart.

During my childhood, I felt older than my years because I felt responsible for my brothers and sisters.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.