Duty Quote by Thomas Jefferson

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

— Thomas Jefferson

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.

— Anonymous

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

— Woodrow Wilson

It has been said that a nation reveals its character by the values it upholds.

— Kay Granger

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

— Simone Weil

Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.

— William Sloane Coffin

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way it treats its animals.

— Mahatma Ghandi

Nothing is properly one's duty but what is also one's interest.

— John Wilkins

The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Ethics are the secret of nations life”

— Ali Al-Tantawi

I think it is natural that every country has to take care of its interests, but there are some interests that are common to…

— George Soros

I'm going to put the interests of the nation first.

— Richard Shelby