Quotes About Duty

No one truly understood what it is to exist as someone who has to do the things that Jack Bauer does.

Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.

I ask every man and woman occupying a place of responsibility whose duty it is to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ to live it and keep the commandments of God, so that their example will teach it.

I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.

It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.

My job is to enforce the law, without fear or favor.

I got a job to do on the field.

With no draft, the only people who went to war were those who wanted to, or at least those who wanted to join the military.

Join the military, there is nothing better. You get to travel a lot.

I joined the army after 9/11, after the Iraq war was started. I joined in part because I wanted to go fight on the front lines.

In 1993, I joined the Croatian army. I was a radio telegraphist.

I joined politics at the behest of my seniors and considered it my duty to do so.

I did a lot of humanitarian work before I joined the military.

I joined the Army out of a deep sense of duty, but wanting to be an astronaut feels more like my destiny.

Joining the service is a great thing. I think everybody should join the service. It is a great life and we do exciting things.

Men in great place are thrice servants, servants to the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business, so as they have freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times.

There are two kinds of oughts, and there are two ways to be wrong about something. We can be wrong by being irrational, or we can be wrong by being unethical. Morality deals with the second.

The first who was king was a fortunate soldier Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.

Those who have long enjoyed such privleges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.

Great power involves great responsibility

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Those who enjoy such freedoms as we enjoy, forget in time that men died to earn them.

I'm not like that fellow who thought it a far, far better thing to trade his life for that of another. I'm nothing like him: I'd never volunteer to lay my head in the lap of Madame la Guillotine. No, that fellow was a hero and I'm not a hero at all.