Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Our duty as Christians is always to keep heaven in our eye and earth under our feet. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
All Great Things Are Simple, and many came be expressed in single words:Freedom, Justice, Honor, Duty, Mercy, Hope. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. "So we can believe the big ones?" YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Only what is done as duty for duty’s sake ... can scatter the bondage of Karma” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I feel it is my first duty to make an unprecedented compact with my countrymen. Not an inaugural address, not a fireside… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is… — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such… — John Nelson Darby Copy Share Image
Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual… Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
Pay no attention whatsoever to newspaper nonsense or criticism. Be sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right. Truth must… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The will is conceived as a faculty of determining oneself to action in accordance with the conception of certain laws. And such… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
In the broader sense, work is the means to achieve happiness, prosperity. and salvation. When work and duty and joy are commingled,… — J. Richard Clarke Copy Share Image
Combat duty is strenuous and physically demanding, and I'm not the first person to notice that men and women are built differently.… — Pete Hegseth Copy Share Image
Impeachment must not be a raw exercise of political power in which the House impeaches whoever it wishes for any reason it… — Charles T. Canady Copy Share Image
Get masters of families to do their duty, and they will not only spare you a great deal of labor, but will… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All over the world, as governments retreat from their traditional duty to foster the common good and reconceive of themselves as mere… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
In real constabularies, the relevant department that is the subject of 'Line of Duty' is called Professional Standards. However, 'Line of Duty'… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
In the purer ages of the commonwealth, the use of arms was reserved for those ranks of citizens who had a country… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and reckless, raging confidence to accept… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler — Wilhelm Canaris Copy Share Image
It is the duty of the parents to ensure the children don't fall prey to societal pressures. — M. K. Stalin Copy Share Image
A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering. — Albert Kesselring Copy Share Image
“Duty and conscience were, for Theodora, attributes which belonged properly to Girl Scouts.” — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible. — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
Interviewing friends is a tough one. Your duty to the interview must transcend your friendship. Occasionally you'll lose a friend. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Protecting the integrity of every vote cast is among the most important duties I have as governor. — Pat McCrory Copy Share Image
I was raised to believe that we all have a civic duty and a responsibility as Americans to improve our neighborhoods and… — Paul Cook Copy Share Image
A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
As Members of Congress, we have a duty to elevate the discourse and unify during times of crisis. — Lauren Boebert Copy Share Image
