Obligation Quotes
1054 Obligation quotes by 801 unique authors
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As long as leadership from above was not lacking, the people fulfilled their duty and obligation overwhelmingly. Whether Protestant pastor or Catholic priest, both together…
— Adolf Hitler
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Instead of seeming to impose new obligations, they should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a horizon of beauty…
— Pope Francis
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Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is self-evident. Whatever our beliefs about…
— Densey Clyne
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The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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I've got enough money in my life to retire now and do nothing. But I've got a duty and obligation to see if we can…
— Clive Palmer
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Social obligation is much bigger than supporting worthy causes. It includes anything that impacts people and the quality of their lives .
— Bill Ford
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We have been led to believe that we have come a long way toward world nuclear disarmament. But that is not the case. Our government…
— Harrison Ford
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Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?
— George Washington
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The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than…
— George Washington
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Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. When the array of paths before us…
— Dean Koontz
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The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as…
— Charles Grandison Finney
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THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding…
— William Blackstone
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Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the…
— Ronald Reagan
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Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to…
— James Madison
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Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.
— Alexander Hamilton
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The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation,…
— George Washington
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The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true community, with all…
— William J. Clinton
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The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who administer it, may forget their…
— James Madison
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