Quotes About Obligation

It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good

It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

Debt is not just a money thing. It's about owing and being owed. Money is just one thing you can exchange. You can exchange good deeds, you can exchange revenge, you can exchange murders.

Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.

Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility.

Debt robs a man of much of the energy and support which he is otherwise able to give to the church and to other good causes.

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

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

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

Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government

All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them.

The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself.

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime.

It is not a government's obligation to provide services, but to see that they are provided.

We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.

Accepting a government grant with its accompanying rules is like marrying a girl and finding out her entire family is moving in with you before the honeymoon.

It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.

The protection the government owes you and fails to provide, you are morally bound to provide for yourselves.

My position is that it isn't government's job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of allegiance to a government is something Saddam Hussein would do.

When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.

Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.

Congress has an obligation to clear the legal fog by passing my bill to require the federal government to obtain a warrant if it wants to conduct aerial surveillance.

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