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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.
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.
In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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.
I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.
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.
No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.
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.
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.
My Catholic faith is the foundation of my worldview, and my judicial duty is governed, from beginning to end, by the law.
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.
It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
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.
The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I have long believed that the first duty of government is to protect the safety of our citizens.
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.
I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
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.
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.
I'm a gamer, so I play '2k,' 'Call of Duty,' and 'Madden.' I think I can play those games every day.
If you were summoned for jury duty and you didn't show up, what would happen? You'd be in jail!
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.
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.
Leaving active duty was so I could become the best fighter in the world at my weight class.
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.
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.
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.
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.
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.
When officers' actions violate their duty, justice should be served in accordance with our legal system.
Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
The honour of carrying the Canadian flag... brings with it a sense of duty, privilege, and above all, great pride.
When I served on active duty in the United States Air Force, one of my duties was to teach the Law of War.
Congress can pass reasonable gun safety legislation and save lives. We have a duty to the American people to do our job.
I served on active duty and know that active duty personnel have basically zero interaction with the VA.
I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
Unfortunately, military servicemen and servicewomen often have a difficult time transitioning to jobs in the private sector once their duty is complete.
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.
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.
I have done my duty and lived up to my promise of having exposed Jayalalitha.
To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.
I can't get enough of 'Call of Duty.' I'm the oldest guy who plays on PlayStation.
All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens.
Let the grassroots turn on the hate because that's the only thing that will make them do their duty.
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I am available to play in foreign leagues only when not required on national duty.
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.
We view the protection of Jewish life as a mission. We have a historical responsibility, and this is our duty as a republic.
The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.
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.
I think it is our duty towards the people of Lebanon to stabilize the country.
I think that when you're making a story... that's based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.
To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.
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.
I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.
Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.
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