Quotes About Duty

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

I don't get into politics, general or musical, but just call me if you get jury duty. Even in New Jersey I was able to help somebody.

You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it's taking to VOTE.

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty .

Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because its goal was the conquest of freedom.

National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty absolutely irrespective of party politics or factional differences.

If nominated I will not accept if elected I will not serve.

Initially, I felt like my duty was to just keep it positive and be positive and sometimes I crack in that. We're human. I'm imperfect at times and that was just me being imperfect at that one point.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

Democratic dissent is not disloyalty, it is a positive civic duty.

Nation needs soldiers, politics needs civilians.

Responsibility and duty are different things, you can sacrifice your responsibility for your duty but you cannot sacrifice your duty for your responsibility.

People with responsibility and people without responsibility are sorry for each other.

Authority is not a power, it is a responsibility.

Commitment is a curse if it interferes with righteousness.

Ordinary men earns responsibility towards their family, extraordinary men earns duty towards their nation.