Quotes About Duty

It's our duty in Congress to bring the voices of our communities to Washington.

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity and excellence. Our nation continually asks them to do more and more, with less and less.

I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

I signed up for military service in the months following 9/11, and later, as a military intelligence officer, I felt called, like so many others, to volunteer for deployment and service in Afghanistan.

From my early school days, I was brought up with the belief that we have a duty to use our talents, to volunteer and to make a contribution.

I got into the right frame of mind that I will serve my country. I didn't volunteer to do it, but they've asked me, so that's what I'll do.

Sacrifice is the 1.3 million active duty men and women in the U.S. military and 800,000 reserve forces who volunteer to keep us safe and defend our way of life.

I obviously did not volunteer to go to Afghanistan solely to protect the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans.

You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

I vote and I do jury duty.

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.

I'm a very bad citizen. I've never even voted.

The country voted to leave the European Union, and it is the duty of the Government and of Parliament to make sure we do just that.

Having campaigned to remain in the E.U., I voted to trigger Article 50, in response to the clearly expressed wish of the electorate. It must now be my duty as an MP to try to ensure that Brexit is as smooth as possible and that there is a sound legislative framework in place to bring this about. A chaotic departure is in no-one's interest.

We had the biggest democratic exercise, and the majority voted to leave the E.U. It is our duty to make sure we do that.

If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess - you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?

If you know something damaging about a major political figure, then, in a democracy, it is surely your duty to tell the voters before they go to the polls.

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.

Our responsibility is to focus on the House. The Senate's the Senate.

It's one thing to say you're for the war; it's another thing to send your kid to war - your daughter or your son.

If you talk to any senior Army leaders, you'll find one, if not all, their children are in the Army.

We were sent here to hold government accountable.