Duty Quotes

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official." "Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." "In the long history of the world only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger" "A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon." "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty" "It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succor of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know." "Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected" "Our democracy is worth fighting for, worth dying for because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man." "Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?" "All men must serve" "It is not your business to succeed, but to do right; when you have done so, the rest lies with God" "The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom." "The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword" "Whenever you make a promise, you have a responsibility to that promise" "Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty" "The duty of youth is to challenge corruption" "It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman" "Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought" "We have a duty to protect people who flee from conflicts and persecution" "I think the first duty of society is justice"