I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
I think the first duty of society is justice.
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.
Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
Duty cannot exist without faith.
Power has only one duty to secure the social welfare of the People.
We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge.
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
