Quotes about Duty
We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
- Ronald Reagan
You can commit injustice by doing nothing.
- Marcus Aurelius
Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.
- Margaret Fuller
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
- Thomas Paine
True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us.
- DA Carson
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
- Brigham Young
Freedom is not only a gift, but a summons to personal responsibility.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Without freedom there can be no morality.
- Carl Jung
Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.
- William Barclay
For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.
- Muqtada al Sadr
To the patriots I say this: Take that long eternal look. Stand up for freedom, no matter what the cost. Stand up and be counted. It can help to save your soul-and maybe your country.
- Ezra Taft Benson