Duty Quotes

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

In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.

I want to sleep for eternity with a broad smile on my face. I want those who remain behind to say this man has done his duty.

To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

It’s the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody’s got to do it. And if you don’t, who will?

I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.

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

The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value.

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.