- Government
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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
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is my second passion, but as a historian, you have to be genuinely neutral. You have failed in your primary duty as a historian if you are one side or the other.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
From Lady Carlisle's trip to Moscow in 1663 to Veronica Atkinson's tour of duty during the 1989 Romanian revolution, it is clear that very little has changed. Four hundred years of innovation, liberation, and improvement clearly bypassed the Foreign Office while making its rounds through Westminster.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices.
- Single
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- Nov 07, 2020
One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020