John Stuart Mill Quotes

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

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• It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.

  

  Nathan Hale
  • Good
  • Duty
  • Him

• Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

  

  Hannah More
  • Duty
  • Discretion
  • Depart

• The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Law
  • Me
  • Joy

• 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.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Men
  • Military
  • Duty

• The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Culture
  • Values
  • Duty

• The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Country
  • Freedom
  • Constitution

• Our duty is to be patient.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Duty
  • Patient
  • Be Patient

• It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Government
  • Duty
  • Her

• The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Life
  • Duty
  • Independence

• Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Love
  • Ambition
  • Sense

• I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Worry

• In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Love
  • Christian
  • Marriage

• The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.

  

  C. P. Scott
  • Truth
  • Soul
  • Free

• I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself a mathematician and scientist of genius, found it quite ridiculous that anyone should suppose that rational processes could lead to any ultimate conclusions about life, but easily accepted the authority of the Scriptures. With us, it is the other way `round

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Age
  • Science

• In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Constitution
  • Duty
  • Guides

• Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Duty

• Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Duty
  • Does
  • Expects

• Clearly the will of the people is that the Legislature make as its 'paramount' duty -- its top priority -- the education of all children. Not just some -- all.

  

  Luke Ford
  • People
  • Children
  • Education

• Whether you are doing it in the bar, the church, the strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is to complement and enhance life.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Life
  • Music
  • Church

• After four tours of duty as a Navy SEAL officer, I came home from Iraq and watched the VA - the second-biggest bureaucracy in the country - fail my friends. The VA was broken and my friends were suffering. And yet, time and again, the only 'solution' I heard from liberals was to spend more money. It made me angry.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Money
  • Friends
  • Duty

• No matter what has happened. No matter what you’ve done. No matter what you will do. I will always love you. I swear it.

  

  C.J. Redwine
  • For Her
  • Love You
  • No Matter What

• Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Prophet
  • Carpe

• Mackerel is sustainable and healthy.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Healthy
  • Sustainable

• No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

  

  John Stuart Mill
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