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Duties Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives…
- Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural…
- To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which…
- I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
- With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.
- We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable…
- The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.
- I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no…
- The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of consideration…
- Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest…
- The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.
- MORAL LAW, Evidence of.- Man has been subjected by his Creator to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as it is sometimes…
- The relations which exist between man and his Maker, and the duties resulting from those relations, are the most interesting and important to every human…
- Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors…
- The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as…
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- A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely,… — Charles Babbage
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- If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office,… — Pope Benedict XVI
- The family is the school of duties - founded on love. — Felix Adler
- I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most… — Harold Brodkey
- Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties. — Charlotte Bronte
- Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while… — Helena Bonham Carter
- I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of… — Samuel Alito
- Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and… — William Ellery Channing
- We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase… — Tom Clancy
- Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties. — Doug Larson