Duty Quotes
On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To break the lamp of any people into deprive it of its rightful place in the world festival.
A tolerant person should not be harrased. The subject or the ruled ones generally is loyal to the ruler. The people tak to revolt when they are helpless. The duty of the ruler is that his humble people mey not tak to revolt being suppressed by his bad polity. Considering the forbearance of the subject, do not ill behave with them so that they may feel oppressed.
When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.
Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.
We have enough objects of charity at home, and it is our duty to take care of our own poor, and our own suffering, before we go abroad to intermeddle with other people's business.
We must have though a man who recognizes the slavery issue as being the living issue of the day; who does not hesitate to declare slavery a wrong, nor to deal with it as such; who believes in the power and duty of Congress to prevent the spread of it.
My opinion is that no state can, in any way lawfully, get out of the Union, without the consent of the others; and that it is the duty of the President, and other government functionaries to run the machine as it is.
I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind; and therefore ... I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.
As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.
Our duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.
Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom - physical, mental, and spiritual - and help others to do so.
According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege.
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.
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