We never know who they are that God will draw, and have nothing to do with it. Our duty is to invite all, and leave it to God to choose the vessels of mercy.

True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience.

It’s every American’s duty to support his government but not necessarily in the style to which it has become accustomed

It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as a villain, there is, nevertheless the sublimest ascent of self-sacrifice. To do less would class you as an object of eternal scorn, to do so much presumes the grandeur of heroism

What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security.

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

“LEIA – O help Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, help. Thou art Mine only hope. LUKE – I wonder who she is. Whoever she may be, whatever is Her cause, I shall unto her pleas respond. Not e’en were she my sister could I know A duty of more weight than I feel now. It seemeth she some dreadful trouble hath – Mayhap I should replay the message whole.”

It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do

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

Obviously, the duty of artists is there, but it’s more an indictment of the political system that someone like Zinn views artists as the seers, idealizing them as the people responsible for inspiring change

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

I am not afraid of a fight; I have to do my duty, come what may

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

It’s my duty to upkeep and safeguard my voice, my ability to sing.

I obviously respect the opportunity I have got to play for the country.

What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a right and a duty to use the power of government to impose their superior knowledge and virtue on others

The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals is a violation of moral duty

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace; and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess

It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government

Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime

There is a duty to improve the lot of others. Charity isn’t personal, it’s public. It’s owed not just to God and salvation but to the nation: the idea that America itself deserves its citizens’ charity, not because it is poor but because it could always be richer.

Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.

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

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives

The duty of the writers is not to preserve the language but to open the way for it in history.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

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

A man has no need of entertainment. Entertainment only distracts from his duty. If a man has his duty, that is enough.

Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

The greatest want of the world is the want of men – men who will not be bought or sold, men who in their inmost souls are true and honest, men who do not fear to call sin by its right name, men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole, men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

Don’t bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.

To perform one’s duty is the greatest service to God.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.

Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.

Duty is not collective; it is personal

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge anyone to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Man cannot choose his duties.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential

Your duty is, as ferre as I can gesse.

I ain’t doing my duty by that boy, and that’s the Lord’s truth, goodness knows. Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I’m a-laying up sin and suffering for us both, I know. He’s full of the Old Scratch, but laws-a-me! he’s my own dead sister’s boy, poor thing, and I ain’t got the heart to lash him, somehow. Every time I let him off, my conscience does hurt me so, and every time I hit him my old heart most breaks.

I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.

The consciousness of having discharged that duty which we owe to our country is superior to all other considerations.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties

I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations.

It’s my duty to enlighten people.

I feel my calling here goes above basketball.