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Duty Quotes
"No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more."
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"No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities."
19
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
14
"We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail."
Duty,
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"Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not."
8
"Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers."
Duty,
7
"Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions."
7
"Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice."
7
"Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest."
7
"I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them."
6
"She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty."
6
"I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow."
6
"The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair."
6
"Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah."
6
"When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers."
6
"Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other."
Duty,
6
"Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races."
5
"In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty."
5
"Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy."
5
"Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty."
5
"Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty."
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"We have one great assignment: to fully accomplish what we have been divinely charged by God to the very limit of our sincere strength with due fear courage, in wit and in truth, and within the scope of our Assigner: Jehovah!"
5
"No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty."
4
"Today nearly every combat brigade located within the United States would report that they are not ready for duty. They are at the lowest levels of readiness."
4
"For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor."
4
"The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies."
4
"Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction."
4
"It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders."
4
"I expect that on the 1st of August, the SA will be once more ready for duty."
4
"Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and has the potential to become an inexpensive source of energy for neighborhoods, light and heavy duty vehicles, and industry."
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