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"Responsibility and duty are different things, you can sacrifice your responsibility for your duty but you cannot sacrifice your duty for your responsibility."

"To care is our endless sense if duty."

"To avoid being blamed after here, do what you must do as a must do whilst you are here!"

"Life has its demands from every one of us who live on planet earth."

"If you try to do that which is not 'our' duty [the Self's duty], it will create interference."

"Everything in the society that is wrong is our responsibility to fix."

"You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn't of much importance. Most of your orders will be unpleasant, but that's not your business.They should've trained you for this, and not for flower-strewn streets. They should have built your soul with truth, not led along with lies."

"But so long as I lived under a system of Government based on force and voluntarily partook of the many facilities and privileges it created for me, I was bound to help that Government to the extent of my ability when it was engaged in a war, unless I non-co-operated with the Government and renounced to the utmost of my capacity the privileges it offered me."
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"My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied."

"Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better."

"I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps."

"Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone."

"My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive."

"Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made."

"It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen."
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