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Quotes About Duty

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nationallthe time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
~ Mark Twain
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. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.
~ Mark Twain
Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
~ Mark Twain
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
~ Oscar Wilde
I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform four years myself.
~ Ronald Reagan
Waiters are the help, dear. It's like falling in love with a blender!
~ Daniel Nayeri, Another Faust
Many say exploration is part of our destiny, but it's actually our duty to future generations and their quest to ensure the survival of the human species.
~ Buzz Aldrin
Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations.
~ Guy Verhofstadt
It is our duty to make a leap into the future, and I believe that we will make it.
~ Alexis Tsipras
Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future.
~ William DeWitt Hyde
The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age - Have left me naked to mine enemies.
~ William Shakespeare
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
~ Laurence Binyon
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
~ Texas Guinan
The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case
~ George W Bush
Everyone loves Freedom but everyone isn't willing to serve our Country and fight for it. Today we honor those that have. Happy Veterans Day!
~ Unknown
Without our Veterans we wouldn't have one of the greatest gifts in life FREEDOM. Thanks for your bravery and sacrifices. Happy Veterans Day!
~ Unknown
Anyone that puts their life at risk to protect our freedom is a HERO in my book. Thanks for your bravery and sacrifices. Happy Veterans Day!
~ Unknown
I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us
~ Louisa May Alcott
Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband.
~ William Shakespeare
It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in.
~ Colin Powell
The administration I'll bring is a group of men and women who are focused on what's best for America, honest men and women, decent men and women, women who will see service to our country as a great privilege and who will not stain the house.
~ George W Bush
If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.
~ Sir Walter Scott