Quotes About Duty

A certain Herr Schurz, a Prussian politician, once said: 'My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.

Sometimes life is not about what u want to do but what u ought to do

Africa never spared those who did what they liked instead of what they had to do.

Just remember,' a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel told me as he strapped his pistol belt under his arm before we crossed into Kuwait, 'that none of these boys is fighting for home, for the flag, for all that crap the politicians feed the public. They are fighting for each other, just for each other.

when human law comes into conflict with what is moral, human law must be defied.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty," Simone Weil wrote.

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression," Paine said. "For if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."36 Unchecked legislatures, he warned, could be as despotic as unchecked monarchs.

Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.

Typically, people in the intelligence community are just going to kind of hunker down and do their job, do their mission. And I believe - I have great faith in them. I think they will continue to serve up truth to power even if the power chooses not to listen to the truth.

As far as this citizen is concerned, the decision to commit men and women, who are also sons and daughters, to combat is an extraordinarily important one, and not to be done to just feel good; to be done to absolutely accomplish a mission.

I don't hate people. I just accept missions.

I was sent to Korea, which was excellent training for what came later. I was assigned to remain on duty until I completed one hundred combat missions - or got knocked out - whichever came first.

I still feel a heavy responsibility for the people of Missouri because of the respect they have for me but also the things they've done for me.

Duty is that mode of action which constitutes the best application of the capacity of the individual to the general advantage.

At the end of the day, I think you're on high moral ground when you respect Montana and you respect the Constitution and you do your duty as a Senator. We need to put Americans' and Montanans' interests in the front seat and politics in the back.

When I have to do what I think is right for Montana, I do it.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

We have a moral duty to have an efficient government.

I think we have a political and moral duty to do everything within our power to maintain the Good Friday Agreement.

The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'

Each player has to dedicate himself to serve his motherland.