Quotes About Duty

Krieg ist eine bescheuerte Sache, doch trotzdem mussten wir ihn führen. Mussten. Fragt mich nicht, warum. Wir mussten.

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.

War, he said, quoting John Stuart Mill, was "an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things….A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature, who has no chance of being free.

A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman.

I would not have the marriage annulled. You are my husband." Connall looked torn for a minute, then said, "Why will ye keep it so when ye ken what I am?" "I . . ." She peered at him helplessly, not quite having the courage to reveal her feelings. "If 'tis out of duty, I'll no ha'e it. I'll no ha'e ye stayin' with me out o' duty and silently hatin' me fer what I am." "I

Perish discretion when it interferes with duty

While duty measures the regard it owes With scrupulous precision and nice justice, Love never reasons, but profusely gives, Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, And trembles then, lest it has done too little.

It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.

I'm begging you, Taz, don't die a hero with no cause.

To disobey an order is, I know, unforgivable, but the determination to save my comrades is stronger than my sense of duty.

I can't promise you that I will bring you all home alive. But this I swear, before you and before Almighty God, that when we go into battle, I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off, and I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive, we will all come home together. So help me, God." ~ Lt Gen Hal Moore, (Ret) 'We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young: Ia Drang-The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam

There is no such thing as closure for soldiers who have survived a war. They have an obligation, a sacred duty, to remember those who fell in battle beside them all their days and to bear witness to the insanity that is war.

The most precious commodity with which the Army deals is the individual soldier who is the heart and soul of our combat forces.       ââ'¬â€GENERAL J. LAWTON

A writer at the time said, "Lincoln means to sink the man in the public officer.

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred--that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt...If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

If a religion is unpatriotic, it ain't right.

I would rather be a Medal of Honor recipient then the President of the United States!

The life of a soldier far from the cannon's roar has little glamour to it.

If a man through his life became like an angel he would accomplish very little; the accomplishment which is most desirable for man is to fulfill the obligations of human life.

Besides this it is necessary that man, before starting his journey, realizes that he has fulfilled his duties, his duty to those around him and his duty to God. But one who considers his duty to those around him sacredly does his duty to God.

We are all in this world travelers, and those near to us or those whom we see, they are the ones we meet on our journey. And therefore, it is an opportunity of thinking of our duty towards them. Neither shall we be with them always, nor will they be with us. Life is a dream in which we are thrown, a dream which is ever changing. Therefore an opportunity lost of considering our little obligations in our everyday life, which form part of our duty, is like forgetting our religion.

Die Arbeit, welche ein/e Sufi als seine oder ihre heilige Pflicht ansieht, hat nichts mit einem bestimmten Glaubensbekenntnis zu tun und auch nichts mit einer bestimmten Religion. Es ist nur diese einfache Sache: im Rhythmus mit den Umständen des Lebens zu schwingen, und auf das Unendliche eingestimmt zu sein.

Lady, you forced me into this. You were willing to sell everything, both of our souls, for Jesse's house. Well, we saved it. Jesse will come back to claim it. But you forced me to be a husband. Now, Mrs. McCauley, I'm afraid that I'm going to have to force you to be a wife!