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• The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Liberty, Hazards

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”

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• Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Extremes

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.457, Penguin

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• The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Special, Helping

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Ethics of the Dust”, p.100, John Ruskin

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• Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged.

  Hosea Ballou

  Love Is, Faithful, Ignorant

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• Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

  Joseph Joubert

  Men, Slave, Force

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.90

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• Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional, purely imperative duty, which he must be perfectly certain not to have transgressed who would give himself up to the secret emotions arising from benevolence.

  Immanuel Kant

  Rights, Giving, Secret

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• Feeble are we? Yes, without God we are nothing. But what, by faith, every man may be, God requires him to be. This is the only Christian idea of duty. Measure obligation by inherent ability! No, my brethren, Christian obligation has a very different measure. It is measured by the power that God will give us, measured by the gifts and possible increments of faith. And what a reckoning will it be for many of us, when Christ summons us to answer before Him under the law, not for what we are, but for what we might have been.

  Horace Bushnell

  Christian, Men, Law

  Horace Bushnell (1876). “Sermons for the New Life”

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• One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.

  King Albert II

  Independence, Mind, Vision

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• Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

  Mencius

  Responsibility, Roots, Oneself

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• Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

  Chanakya

  Relationship, Adversity, Wife

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• The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Courage, Military

  Andrew Jackson, David Maydole Matteson (1937). “Correspondence of Andrew Jackson: to April 30, 1814”

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• You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great.

  George MacDonald

  Thinking, Ifs

  George MacDonald (2012). “The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes —”, p.214, tredition

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• Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Heart, Light

  1833-4 Sartor Resartus, bk.2, ch.9.

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• Put thou thy trust in God;
  In duty's path go on;
  Fix on His word thy steadfast eye;
  So shall thy work be done.

  Martin Luther

  Eye, Done, Goes On

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  Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Dec 05, 2013

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• In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

  William Barclay

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called.

  Bill Shuster

  Veterans Day, Responsibility, Our Veterans

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• He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Sacrifice, Pleasure, Obligation

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.200, 1895.

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• Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

  Ellen Key

  Liberty, Fidelity, Observation

  Ellen Key (1911). “The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays”

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• The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Government, Political

  "My New Order". Book by Adolf Hitler, p. 144, 1941.

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• If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Music, Conversation, Ifs

  1891 The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch.4.

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• The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

  Andre Malraux

  Inspirational, Leader, Firsts

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• I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.

  Wilhelm Canaris

  Country, Historical, Criminals

  "Admiral Canaris - Chief of Intelligence". Book by Ian Colvin, p. 210, 2007.

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• The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

  Mortimer Adler

  Mind, Trying, Philosopher

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• I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

  Laurence Sterne

  Mother, Father, Wish

  Tristram Shandy bk. 1, ch. 1 (1759 - 1767)

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