Quotes About Duty

A good government is one with a duty to help everyone, to maximise his or her potential: Indigenous people, people with disabilities, and our forgotten families.We will not leave anyone behind.

It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.

The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in the world aren't worth a dime.

To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.

You might be a redneck if you missed 5th grade graduation because you had jury duty.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

I have just taken on a great responsibility. I will do my utmost to meet it.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.

Great power involves great responsibility

Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.

I think the actors take a great responsibility for the characters in the movie.

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Happiness is a moral obligation

What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself.

happiness is a duty, not only because of its effect upon us but because of its influence upon others.

There is no duty so much underrated as the duty of being happy.