Quotes About Duty

The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

This is a subject with which wisdom and patriotism should be occupied.

The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady.

The sweet spot is where duty and delight converge.

when life still hesitates to touch us, when neither duty nor guilt dares lay a hand upon us

El reposo es el primer deber del ciudadano, y la impaciencia no hace más que perjudicarle.

For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.

But there is always a danger that the priest qualified to seriously direct religious will be overwhelmed by the demand for his services. His first duty, if he wants to be an effective director, is to see to his own interior life and take time for prayer and meditation, since he will never be able to give to others what he does not possess himself.

Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

Dismiss the thought," protested Lindsay from a certain equine altitude, "for it would make us no better than common thieves.

Perhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy.

Nothing is worth the loss of one's conscience, or the ability to do what is right.

I now had the pleasure of her company 24/7. Joy. Kit broke the awkward silence. "This looks delicious, honey. You've done it again." Grinning, he raised his fork in a mock salute. My dad, the dork. I suppressed a sigh. If this silly, white-gloved dingbat made my father happy—and I knew she did—it was my solemn duty as his progeny to suffer it.

pilot's duty, and that of his crew, to check constantly, even when over the target with enemy fighters attacking from every angle and the flak coming up from the German ack-ack batteries just, as Andy remarked, to make life a little more exciting.

Dammit, Jim. I'm a Guardian, not a doctor.

Why won't you go away?" "I have a mission. So why? Why do I…long so…to be with you?

As Allen Walker's bodyguard, I can't ignore what you said.