Duty Quotes

"Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected" "It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succor of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know." "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty" "A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon." "In the long history of the world only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger" "If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well." "The first duty of the sovereign, that of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies, can be performed only by means of a military force" "Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law." "Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" "Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be" "The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war" "Duty is ours; results are God's" "It is the duty of every man to render to the country the services he is competent to perform"