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For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield.

Quotes by Zachary Taylor

I did not expect to encounter what has beset me since my elevation to the presidency. God knows, I have endeavored to fulfill what I considered to be an honest duty, but I have been mistaken; my motives have been misconstrued and my feelings grossly betrayed.

Quotes by Zachary Taylor

In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.

Quotes by Zachary Taylor

My performance, I believe, is about my duty to the script, and my duty to the story that we're trying to tell, and I try to do that in a way that is true, in a way that's going to hold up the script, and that's going to be fun for the viewers to watch.

Quotes by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

Quotes by William Weld

Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.

Quotes by William Wilberforce

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

Quotes by William Styron

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

Quotes by William R. Alger

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

Quotes by William Kingdon Clifford

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.

Quotes by William Jennings Bryan

Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.

Quotes by William Henry Ashley

My Catholic faith is the foundation of my worldview, and my judicial duty is governed, from beginning to end, by the law.

Quotes by William H. Pryor

The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.

Quotes by William Hall

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.

Quotes by William Gurnall

It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.

Quotes by William Gurnall

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Quotes by William E. Gladstone

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.

Quotes by William Ellery Channing

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

Quotes by William Dean Howells

We all have a fundamental right to live free from fear, free from crime, and free from disorder - but while we share that right, we also share the duty to secure it.

Quotes by William Bratton

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.

Quotes by William Ames

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

Quotes by William Barclay

I believe deeply that the first duty of government is providing for the personal security of its citizens. Therefore I would naturally place the highest priority on strengthening law enforcement.

Quotes by William Barr

I have long believed that the first duty of government is to protect the safety of our citizens.

Quotes by William Barr

As a member of Congress, a coequal branch of government designed by our founders to provide checks and balances on the executive branch, I believe that lawmakers must fulfill our oversight duty as well as keep the American people informed of the current danger.

Quotes by Will Hurd

I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.

Quotes by Wilhelm Canaris

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.

Quotes by Wilhelm Frick

I like to be able to raise people's consciousness, yes. And to remind that those of us involved in the receiving end of the oppression, we have a duty.

Quotes by Wes Studi

You have to be true to what you believe in and do your duty.

Quotes by Wesley Clark

Next to upholding the Constitution of the United States, the president's highest duty is to protect the security of this country - our national security.

Quotes by Wesley Clark

The American public should simply accept no distractions. In our democracy, it is our duty to hold our elected leaders accountable. We do it at the ballot box.

Quotes by Wesley Clark

Our men and women fighting in Iraq are held accountable for their performance and their conduct. On duty and off, twenty-four hours a day. They're fighting for us, for our safety, our rights, and our freedoms.

Quotes by Wesley Clark

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

Quotes by Washington Irving

Consult duty not events.

Quotes by Walter Savage Landor

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

Quotes by W. C. Fields

Even if a sense of honor and duty were not the primary motivating factors in the Warren Commission's work, simple self-interest would naturally have induced its members not to try to cover up the existence of a conspiracy if, in fact, they found one.

Quotes by Vincent Bugliosi

If you are irresponsible as a parent and don't know what your kids are watching, that's your problem. It's not the creator's duty to create every show in a way that a six-year-old can watch it.

Quotes by Vikramaditya Motwane

I'm a gamer, so I play '2k,' 'Call of Duty,' and 'Madden.' I think I can play those games every day.

Quotes by Trey Burke

If you were summoned for jury duty and you didn't show up, what would happen? You'd be in jail!

Quotes by Trey Gowdy

What I have appreciated about the 'Call of Duty' games is the scale of production. It's not an indie game. It's not trying to be an indie game. But I've genuinely been pretty consistently blown away by, wow, what an effort has gone into this.

Quotes by Trent Reznor

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

Quotes by Tom G. Palmer

Leaving active duty was so I could become the best fighter in the world at my weight class.

Quotes by Tim Kennedy

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

Quotes by Tiberius

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.

Quotes by Thomas Paine

And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.

Quotes by Thomas Keneally

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

Thomas Jefferson

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Thomas Jefferson

I have done what I felt to be my duty.

Quotes by Thomas Francis Meagher

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

Quotes by Thomas Francis Meagher

It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a Republic without the moral and material support of the liberty-loving citizens of these United States.

Quotes by Thomas Francis Meagher

The poverty of a man of benevolence is not to be considered as poverty but only as his temporary inability to exercise his inherent duty.

Quotes by Thiruvalluvar

When officers' actions violate their duty, justice should be served in accordance with our legal system.

Quotes by Thom Tillis

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

Quotes by Thomas a Kempis

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

Quotes by Theresa May

The honour of carrying the Canadian flag... brings with it a sense of duty, privilege, and above all, great pride.

Quotes by Tessa Virtue

When I served on active duty in the United States Air Force, one of my duties was to teach the Law of War.

Quotes by Ted Lieu

Congress can pass reasonable gun safety legislation and save lives. We have a duty to the American people to do our job.

Quotes by Ted Lieu

I served on active duty and know that active duty personnel have basically zero interaction with the VA.

Quotes by Ted Lieu

I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.

Quotes by Tammy Duckworth

Unfortunately, military servicemen and servicewomen often have a difficult time transitioning to jobs in the private sector once their duty is complete.

Quotes by Tae Yoo

Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.

Quotes by Suzanne Fields

If you are a Christian, you want to give as much as you can away. It sounds pious, but it's not a duty; it's a kind of joy.

Quotes by Susan Howatch

I have done my duty and lived up to my promise of having exposed Jayalalitha.

Quotes by Subramanian Swamy

To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.

Quotes by Stieg Larsson

I can't get enough of 'Call of Duty.' I'm the oldest guy who plays on PlayStation.

Quotes by Steve Jones

All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens.

Quotes by Steve King

Let the grassroots turn on the hate because that's the only thing that will make them do their duty.

Quotes by Steve Bannon

Vision looks inward and becomes duty.

Quotes by Stephen Samuel Wise

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Quotes by Stephen King

My husband's duty is to the country, and mine is to the family.

Quotes by Sonia Gandhi

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir

I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.

Quotes by Simon Wiesenthal

Moses Montefiore loved Jerusalem, lived for Jerusalem, and even made it our family motto. A Zionist before the word was invented, he believed in the sacred idea of Jewish return as a religious Jew's duty, and in Jewish statehood.

Quotes by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.

Quotes by Simon Mainwaring

For me, growing up, I felt like there was something fatally and tragically flawed in my nature and that it was my duty to try to avoid falling for that vice.

Quotes by Shyam Selvadurai

A good deed is not just a duty, but above all, a privilege.

Quotes by Shari Arison

I am available to play in foreign leagues only when not required on national duty.

Quotes by Shahid Afridi

Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty.

Quotes by Sebastian Junger

We view the protection of Jewish life as a mission. We have a historical responsibility, and this is our duty as a republic.

Quotes by Sebastian Kurz

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

Quotes by Samuel Smiles

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

Quotes by Samuel Smiles

I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

Quotes by Samuel de Champlain

Economic, social, and other kinds of regional cooperation are not possible so long as there is apartheid. Therefore, it seems the duty of all mankind to destroy it.

Quotes by Samora Machel

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

Quotes by Samuel Adams

I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.

Quotes by Samantha Morton

The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.

Quotes by Salva Kiir Mayardit

A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with the other; but nothing is recognized by Christians as virtuous or useful which is not helpful to the future life.

Quotes by Saint Ambrose

I think it is our duty towards the people of Lebanon to stabilize the country.

Quotes by Saad Hariri

I think that when you're making a story... that's based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.

Quotes by Ryan Coogler

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

Quotes by Rutherford B. Hayes

To do my duty, I must obey God.

Quotes by Roy Moore

We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions.

Quotes by Ronald Fisher

I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.

Quotes by Ron Kovic

Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.

Quotes by Romola Garai

I promised never to let the Rwandan Genocide die because I knew the Rwandans didn't have much power internationally and certainly didn't have the resources. I felt it was my duty having witnessed it, and having stayed to witness it, that I had to talk about it and keep it going.

Quotes by Romeo Dallaire

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.

Quotes by Roland Allen

Unquestionably, it is the duty of every master to watch over the religious and moral culture of his slaves, and to give them every comfort and privilege that is not incompatible with the continued existence of the relations between them.

Quotes by Roger B. Taney

My husband is a former Air Force pilot and my son is an active duty Army surgeon, recently returned from Iraq, so my pride in our military is passionate... and personal.

Quotes by Robyn Carr

The duty of the grand jury is to separate fact from fiction, after a full and impartial examination of all the evidence involved, and decide if evidence supported the filing of any criminal charges against Darren Wilson. They accepted and completed this monumental responsibility in a conscientious and expeditious manner.

Quotes by Robert P. McCulloch

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

Quotes by Robert James Graves

Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

Quotes by Robert E. Lee

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