Benefits Quote by Hugo Black

It will be the duty of the Executive, with sufficient appropriations for the purpose, to prosecute unsparingly all who have been engaged in depriving…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.

— Immanuel Kant

No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.

— Benjamin Constant

The duty imposed upon him [the president] to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath…

— Joseph Story

The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable when…

— John Marshall

It is (our) duty . . . to pay especial attention to the principles of government which shall be inculcated therein (at the University),…

— Thomas Jefferson

The Court's primary duty, in short, is not to minimize its role or avoid friction with the political branches, but to try as best…

— Diane S. Sykes

The people who are entrusted with interpreting the law and upholding justice are tasked with an enormous duty.

— Phil Scott

Men and women who live in America...have a responsibility greater than that yet borne by any other people. Theirs the duty, the obligation to…

— David O. McKay

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.

— William H. Seward

The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or…

— William Henry Harrison

All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.

— Roger L'Estrange