Duty Quotes

"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well." "The first duty of the sovereign, that of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies, can be performed only by means of a military force" "Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law." "Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" "Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be" "The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war" "Duty is ours; results are God's" "It is the duty of every man to render to the country the services he is competent to perform" "You have a solemn duty to perform -- to leave me." "Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair." "There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy" "Posterity — you will never know how much it has cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it" "A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern, as the business of the soldier is to fight. The true Christian is a soldier of Christ, and he counts it his bounden duty to fight against the enemies of his soul, the world, the flesh, and the devil." "The duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from its government" "He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act" "We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." "Do your duty as you see it and damn the consequences" "Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere."