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Duty Quotes by James Madison
- It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens…
- It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him.…
- What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.
- Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of the edifice prepared…
- The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more…
- It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.
- Because we hold it for 'a fundamental and undeniable truth', that religion or 'the duty which we owe to our Creator' and the manner of…
- That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in vain…
- The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness…
- [In the case of] dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and…
- Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.
- The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy…
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- No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. — Saint Augustine
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- We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. — Robert Baden-Powell
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- We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great… — Roy Barnes
- We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail. — Dave Barry
- An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can. — Jacques Barzun
- The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty… — Samuel Adams
- Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a… — Gary Bauer
- Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a… — Simone de Beauvoir