Quotes about Duty
The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
- George Washington
Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.
- Mahatma Gandhi
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
- George Bernard Shaw
Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Happiness is a moral obligation.
- Dennis Prager
To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
- Samuel Johnson
The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.
- Benjamin Disraeli
We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.
- Ezra Taft Benson
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
- Albert Einstein
We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
- Epictetus