Quotes about Obligation
The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also, to do justice to the Tree of Liberty by an exhibition of the fine fruits we gather from it.
- James Madison
Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill?Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To live without duties is obscene.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every day carries with it a responsibility.
- Joseph Wirthlin
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.
- William Faulkner
When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.
- Mark Twain
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
- Henry Ward Beecher
What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.
- James Madison
Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson