As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none can be more sacred, because they are bound, on the conscience by the religious sanctions of an oath. As metes and bounds of government, they transcend all other land-marks, because every public usurpation is an encroachment on the private right, not of one, but of all.

The chief source of man’s inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.

We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself

The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the worldworl

God will accept only those who are determined to aim high. He places every human agent under obligation to do his best.

Everyone has an obligation to the state, it means an obligation to see that children are educated.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

To be an atheist is a matter not of moral choice but of human obligation

To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only obligation.

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

It has been my observation in life that, if one will only exercise the patience to wait, his wants are likely to be filled.

And yet we cannot define as skillful killing one’s fellow citizens, betraying one’s friends, and showing no loyalty, mercy, or moral obligation. These means can lead to power, but not glory.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.

Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses.

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

I have learned something about the job of being the President’s wife. She is not chosen by anyone except her husband and she really has no obligations except to him.