Quotes about Duty

It is another kind of marriage—the marriage of privilege and duty. It is the aristocrat's explanation and his excuse.

Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.

Love exercised while duty is neglected will make children headstrong, willful, perverse, selfish, and disobedient. If stern duty is left to stand alone without love to soften and win, it will have a similar result. Duty and love must be blended in order that children may be properly disciplined.

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race we kept them free we kept the faith.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Responsibility is the ability to respond.

Success should not only be measured by what you get but by the stewardship of your duty.

Humility, the place of entire dependence upon God, is from the very nature of things the first duty and the highest virtue of His creatures. And so pride—the loss of humility—is the root of every sin and evil.