The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
Samuel Johnson

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
Henry A. Kissinger

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
Ann Landers

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.
Dick Gregory

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.
Earl Wilson

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
George Santayana

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Andre Malraux

Duty cannot exist without faith.
Benjamin Disraeli

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.
George W. Bush

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
George W. Bush

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
Benjamin Disraeli

I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
Samuel de Champlain

Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.
Lester B. Pearson

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year.
Larry David

Duty is not collective; it is personal.
Calvin Coolidge

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
Mencius