Quotes about Duty
We can have peace and brotherly love by accepting our responsibility to preserve freedom.
— Ronald Reagan
We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.
— Thomas Jefferson
The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
— Aristotle
One's task is not to turn the world upside down but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Greatest gift is human life and that we have a duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
— Ronald Reagan
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.
— Ronald Reagan
National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty absolutely irrespective of party politics or factional differences.
— John Adams
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.
— William Wilberforce
True liberty is not the power to live as we please, but to live as we ought.
— AW Pink
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
— Thomas Jefferson