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Quotes About Duty

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It is satisfaction to a man to do the proper works of a man.
~ Marcus Aurelius
A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man.
~ Marcus Aurelius
I'm just a girl in a nurse's uniform, but that doesn't mean I know how to save these men, and they- they are men in uniforms, but that doesn't mean they know how to die.
~ Marcus Sedgwick
You got responsibilities when you're a leader. You got a responsibility not to kill too many of your men. Or who're you going to lead?
~ Mark Lawrence
When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.
~ Mark Twain
Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.
~ Murray Kempton
The law, that is what makes men stay honest.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I would like it to be said: here lies a man who has done his duty on earth
~ Nelson Mandela
I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities.
~ Nicolas Sarkozy
Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.
~ Plato
Those officers and men who were immediately under my observation, evinced the greatest gallantry, and I have no doubt that all others conducted themselves as became American officers and seamen.
~ Oliver Hazard Perry
My view of Bradley Manning is that he's a very courageous young man who... did what I didn't have the guts to do during the Vietnam war.
~ Ray McGovern
A man who will not die to save a woman is no man.
~ Robert Jordan
Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each in his own way, or to stand guard for each other.
~ Henry Adams
When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.
~ Henry Miller
Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.
~ Herman Melville
I am out of money,we are all out of money,but we dont need money down here- Dont need anything but Men , Muskets, Ammunition, Hard Tack, Bacon and Letters from home.
~ James A. Connolly
What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.
~ James Madison