Quotes About Duty

If Ivanka Trump called, I think good people need to serve.

A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.

A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.

Those who claim to be on the side of good yet do nothing to fight evil are on the side of evil.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation.

The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular gift in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens.

I sincerely believe that I have served a criminal. I led my soldiers in good conscience... but for a criminal government.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.

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

Government does not grow by seizing our freedoms, but by assuming our responsibilities.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.

I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose.

Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.