Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship. — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government. — Ken Starr Copy Share Image
I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty. — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I'll play some 'UFC,' 'Call of Duty' sometimes too. What else I play? I play some racing games. — DeSean Jackson Copy Share Image
Animals are not our playthings. We are on this earth to protect them. It's our duty. — River Phoenix Copy Share Image
I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon… — Maria Monk Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
... it is the right and duty of every woman to employ the power of organization and agitation in order to gain… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty,… — Matthew Woodring Stover Copy Share Image
“Do not disturb yourself with vain curiosity concerning the affairs of others, nor how they conduct themselves, unless your position makes it… — Various Copy Share Image
Zeal is the great desire to make God known, loved, and served, and thus to bring knowledge of salvation to others. Activity… — Basil Moreau Copy Share Image
Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Oh, how precious is time! And how guilty it makes me feel when I think I have trifled away and misimproved it,… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
After four tours of duty as a Navy SEAL officer, I came home from Iraq and watched the VA - the second-biggest… — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image
It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Children truly are the family's greatest treasure and most precious good. Consequently, everyone must be helped to become aware of the intrinsic… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature… — Barbara Bergmann Copy Share Image
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy. — John Spratt Copy Share Image
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God. — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies. — Rene Balcer Copy Share Image
“It may take ye from this time. It may take ye from yer own people. But it is yer duty now, and… — E.B. Brown Copy Share Image
God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty. — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War. — Charles Inglis Copy Share Image
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Our duty as concerned citizens is to educate ourselves so that we can recognize and report trafficking to the proper authorities. — Chris Hansen Copy Share Image
I'm only brave when I have to be. Being brave doesn't mean you go looking for trouble. - Mufasa — The Lion King Copy Share Image
If you do not magnify your calling, God will hold you responsible for those who you might have saved-had you done your… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom - physical, mental, and spiritual - and help others to do so. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I have no intention of resigning, and confidently expect to resume official duties within three months. — Frederick William Borden Copy Share Image
As a chef, I feel that it is my duty to make the most of what the earth gives us. — Lidia Bastianich Copy Share Image
