Quotes About Duty

Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." George Santos

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country.

Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Remember that it is the actions, and not the commission, that make the officer, and that there is more expected from him, than the title

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.

L'honneur d'un peuple appartient aux morts et les vivants n'en ont que l'usufruit

Too many priests have held their tongues, and I wish it had only been from pity. But we're cowards.

There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.

It's man's most basic and sacred stewardship-to serve as the guardian of his own behavior. And it's man's blackest and most fundamental evil to try and overthrow that stewardship

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

It did not even occur to David to consult Ruti herself about this, or any other matter. Had he done so, he would have been most surprised by the result. He did not realize it, but his love for his daughter marched hand in hand with a kind of contempt for her. He saw his daughter as a kind-hearteed, dutiful, but vaguely pitiable soul. David, like many people, had made the mistake of confusing "meek" with "weak.

Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires.

To persevere in one's duty and be silent, is the best answer to calumny.

Render therefore to all their dues.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

I have no family. My only responsibility is the welfare of Quebec. I belong to the province.