Duty Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
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Duty is a steady drumbeat that calls us to help others. It reminds us that caring for friends and society is more important than only thinking about ourselves. Even when a group decides something, the smaller side should still listen and follow the rules.
![“I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/222/thomas-jefferson-43_civil-rights_i-am-convinced-man-has-no-natural-right_2566996.jpg)
![“Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af7/thomas-jefferson-43_breasts_nature-has-implanted-in-our-breasts-a-lo_531725.jpg)
![“I am ever unwilling that [peace] should be disturbed as long as the rights and interests of the nations can be preserved. But whensoever hostile aggressions on these require a resort to war, we must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f27/thomas-jefferson-43_aggression_i-am-ever-unwilling-that-peace-should-be_563504.jpg)
![“To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with ther purest motives, is something incorrect…No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f5/thomas-jefferson-43_acting_to-seek-out-the-best-persons-to-serve-in_1035539.jpg)
![“We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, in all cases to which they think themselves competent, (as in electing their…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c2/thomas-jefferson-43_2-amendment_we-established-however-some-although-not_2082638.jpg)
![“I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can be most useful to his country, is due from every individual. It is not easy perhaps to say of what length exactly that tour should be, but we may safely say of what length it…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/526/thomas-jefferson-43_acknowledge_i-acknowledge-that-such-a-debt-of-servic_2508145.jpg)
![“[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a93/thomas-jefferson-43_duty_a-spirit-of-justice-and-friendly-accomod_794646.jpg)
![“The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f83/thomas-jefferson-43_citizens_the-most-sacred-of-the-duties-of-a-gover_3100529.jpg)
