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- Nov 07, 2020
Duty Quotes
Doing what's owed, quietly and consistently.
Several lines here connect duty to public life — holding elected leaders accountable through voting, or a president's duty to protect national security. See Responsibility quotes for a closer look at that theme.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Public officials, including state legislators, have a duty to act impartially.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.
- Nov 07, 2020
Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.
- Nov 07, 2020
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. This is the very essence of judicial duty.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.
- Nov 07, 2020
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
- Privilege
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
- Deserve
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- Nov 07, 2020
When active duty ends, we have an obligation to uphold our own pledge: a pledge to ensure that every veteran receives the care and benefits they deserve.
- Endeavour
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is no less the duty of the minority than a majority to endeavour to defend the country.
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- Nov 07, 2020