Duty Quotes
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
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In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.
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Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.
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It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
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Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.
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The highest duty is to respect authority.
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Most criminals are not born; they are made.... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.
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Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
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There's no substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one's character.
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There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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God doesn't want religious duty. He doesn't want a distracted, half-hearted, 'Fine, I'll read a chapter...now are You happy?' attitude. God wants His word to be a delight to us, so much that we meditate on it day and night.
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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
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The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.
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I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.
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It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.
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No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.
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In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.
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Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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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.
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To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.
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The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
