I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
All the people constitute the militia - according to the Founding Fathers. Therefore every able-bodied man has a duty under the Constitution… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
He [Brian Fraser] told me that a man must be responsible for any see he sows, for it's his duty to take… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
You men of the einsatzgruppen are called upon to fulfill a repulsive duty. But you are soldiers who have to carry out… — Heinrich Himmler Copy Share Image
The preaching of the faith has lost nothing of its relevance in our times. The Church has a sacred duty to proclaim… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
We need to reorganize our entire system of retirement plan investing and to develop federal standards of fiduciary duty for pension trustees… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height, nor yet in obscurity. I have been called to several… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
The most beautiful sight this earth affords is a man or woman so filled with love that duty is only a name,… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer; but you may go to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Agnosticism, Atheism, secularism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam or any other counter belief to Christianity is not the greatest threat facing Christianity in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake… — William Watson Purkey Copy Share Image
I want to sleep for eternity with a broad smile on my face. I want those who remain behind to say this… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later. — Brander Matthews Copy Share Image
I repeat that superior races have a right [to establish colonies], because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize… — Jules Ferry Copy Share Image
Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent... It is, in the deepest sense,… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The foundation of a man's duty as a man is in truth. Beyond this there is nothing to be said. — Torii Mototada Copy Share Image