Quotes About Duty

No one is patriotic about taxes.

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.

Strike-for your altars and your fires; Strike-for the green graves of your sires; God-and your native land!

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.

The single best augury is to fight for one's country.

I know the prettiest word in the world is 'money.' But I believe that words like 'loyalty' and 'patriotism' are very beautiful as well.

This is an amazing country, for all of its faults. My feeling is, dig in and let's try to change the world. Dissent is not only your right, it's your duty.

I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.

Patriotism is a passion which induces hot youth to rush forth to get shot and half shot, while sober, conservative age waves the flag and corrals the contracts.

My patriotism and my conscience required me to support it and to engage in the debate over whether and how to fight it.

Patriotism takes the place of religion in France. In the service of la patrie, the doing of one's duty is elevated into the sphere of exalted emotion.

My country, right or wrong, but still my country.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

It is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during 'God save the King' than of stealing from a poor box

On my honor, I will do my bestTo do my duty To God and my country

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Remove the conflict between your desires and your duties, peace will come.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.