Quotes About Duty

I am asking of no man more than I myself was ready throughout four years to do

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

There are times when a corps commander's life does not count.

When we go to war I will not ask the White Racist next to me what is he Christian or Atheist? I will only expect him or her to kill the enemy as I will.

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him.

Madam, if your son were to come home and try to shirk duty, you ought to shut your door in his face and treat him as a renegade unworthy of your name or regard.

There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace.

Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war.

It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court.

We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.

IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused

How can a man commit acts of martial valour if he values his life?

If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.

Bobby Tom: You're supposed to be my assistant, not a baby-sitter! Gracie: One and the same.

We can't just leave the places we don't like. That's a child's way of thinking. Sometimes we have to stay because it's right that we do.

No, Mrs. Peters doesn't need supervising. For that matter, a sheriff's wife is married to the law.

Would you agree," he said, "that man's sole duty is to produce as much pleasure as possible?" "Only if the pleasure produced is equivalent to the diminution of pain." My father crossed his arms. "And only if one man's pleasure is as important as any other's.

The American Protective League, of course. We keep an eye out for German sympathizers, slackers, shows of antipatriotism. That sort of thing. It's important work.

Mmm, being irresistibly likeable is such a trial,' she drawled in an impeccable aristocratic whine. 'One is constantly in demand, but one must do one's duty, mustn't one, dear chap? Noblesse oblige and all that...

Can a magician kill a man by magic?" Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. "I suppose a magician might," he admitted, "but a gentleman never could.

Isn't it just as much the duty of the police to free the innocent, as to bring the guilty to justice?

Just last year i wanted to kill him, but now it is my duty to save him.

Haymich finally drops the good-natured act. "you know who else, Katniss. You know who stepped up first." Of course I do. Gale.