Duty Quotes

The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.
Hugh Sidey

Politics, Quit, Thunder

Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.
Leland Stanford

Science, Political, Control

Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
J. William Fulbright

Work, Great, God

Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.
James Bovard

Age, Time, Power

There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.
Tim Heidecker

Religion, Family, Strong

I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.
Bai Ling

Life, Fate, Walking

In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.
Mark Burnett

War, Government, Two

In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.
Omar Bongo

Short, Among, Countries

The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
James Anthony Froude

Against, Guard, Historian

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
James Anthony Froude

Positive, Sacrifice, Law

For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor.
William Ames

Nature, Good, Perfect

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Forget, Nothing, Person

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
Ernst Fischer

Dreams, Become, Moral

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.
Edmund Barton

Education, State, Bear

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.
Emma Bonino

Family, Politics, Mother

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Society, Job, Human

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
John Morley

Pretty, Sun, Sure

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.
Hugo Black

Government, Die, Free

I just finished Narc, which was a really heavy duty, raw, independent.
Ray Liotta

Finished, Heavy, Raw

It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.
Bainbridge Colby

Men, Support, High

A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.
Gerhard Schroder

Common, Policy, Currency

The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.
Antonio Villaraigosa

Great, Democracy, Here

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.
William Barclay

Time, Good, Ways

We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work - and not to shirk work - but also to get the skills for work. That is a new duty we are introducing.
Gordon Brown

Work, Future, Saying

That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.
Charles Eastman

Power, Alone, Creative

Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.
Olga Korbut

Life, Same, Road

Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.
Suzanne Fields

Peace, Justice, Honor

When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers.
Gordon Gee

Universe, Unknown, University

This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.
Matt Gonzalez

Politics, Makes, Once

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.
Thomas Francis Meagher

Sacrifice, Stand, Guilt

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