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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."
22
"We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail."
Duty,
16
"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
"Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice."
12
"Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures."
11
"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."
11
"In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty."
11
"Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not."
11
"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."
10
"Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty."
10
"Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah."
10
"It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out."
Duty,
10
"Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest."
10
"The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair."
9
"Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races."
8
"The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies."
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,
8
"We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it."
8
"I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them."
8
"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."
8
"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."
8
"No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe."
8
"My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers."
8
"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."
7
"Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be."
Duty,
7
"Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy."
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