- Devotion
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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
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding.
- Moving On
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
- Burden
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
- Will
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- Nov 07, 2020
Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an MP, my first duty is to act in the national interest, regardless of party affiliation.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020