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• Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.

  William Henry Ashley

  War, Party, Spy

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• I am ready to serve the people of Afghanistan, particularly in order to restore peace. I will be ready to assume any duty at the service of my people.

  Ahmad

  Order, People, Assuming

  Meeting with European legislators, June 11, 000.

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• People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.

  Beeban Kidron

  People, Abuse, Coexist

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• I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people, whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect Union, one and inseparable, established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.

  William Tyler

  Country, Believe, America

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• I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.

  William Tyler

  Country, Believe, Law

  The American's Creed, www.ushistory.org. 1917.

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• For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Regret, Understanding, Ethics

  Paul Ricoeur (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.408, A&C Black

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• The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.

  Angelina Grimke

  White, Silence, Despair

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.116, Penguin

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• The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.

  Peter Forsyth

  Soul, Firsts, Masters

  Peter Taylor Forsyth (1948). “Peter Taylor Forsyth (1848-1921) Director of Souls”

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• Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.

  John Sergeant Wise

  Mother, Qualms About, Faithful

  John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.25, Anza Publishing

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• It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.

  Bainbridge Colby

  Patriotic, Responsibility, Men

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• There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of some consolation to be enjoyed, or of some duty to be performed. All that takes place within us, around us, or through us, contains and conceals His divine action.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Pain, Doe, Action

  Jean-Pierre De Caussade (2007). “Abandonment to Divine Providence”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

  John Nelson Darby

  Christian, Evil, Sin

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• There may come a time in the career of every sociologist when it is his solemn duty to raise hell.

  Edward Alsworth Ross

  Careers, May, Hell

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• The foundation of a man's duty as a man is in truth. Beyond this there is nothing to be said.

  Torii Mototada

  Men, Foundation, Truth Is

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• It is our duty to do all we can to introduce every generation to Christ.

  Henrietta Mears

  Generations, Christ, Introducing

  Dr. Henrietta C. Mears (2016). “Sunday School Changes Everything”, p.15, NavPress

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• Duty reaches down the ages in its effects, and into eternity; and when the man goes about it resolutely, it seems to me now as though his footsteps were echoing beyond the stars, though only heard faintly in the atmosphere of this world.

  William Mountford

  Stars, Men, Atmosphere

  William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.174

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• It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.

  Johann Arndt

  Christian, Mean, Blessing

  Johann Arndt (1868). “True Christianity: A Treatise on Sincere Repentance, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc”, p.51

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• To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian.

  Jeremiah Burroughs

  Christian, Excellence, Contentment

  Jeremiah Burroughs, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor (2015). “The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• You stand now between anarchy and law. The Police have done their duty. Let the jury have the same courage so that the police can indeed rest in peace. The flowers of spring shall bloom upon their graves moistened by the tears of a great city. Outraged and violated law shall be redeemed and in their martyrdom anarchy shall be buried forever.

  Jason Epstein

  Rest In Peace, Spring, Flower

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• It is the duty of all magicians to give entertainment.

  John Henry Anderson

  Giving, Entertainment, Magician

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• If we wish that the name Israel be not extinguished, then we are in duty bound
  to create something which may serve as a center for our entire people, like the
  heart in an organism, from which the blood will stream into all the arteries of
  the national body and fill it with life.

  Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

  Life, Heart, Israel

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• Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without an internalised sense of duty and morality, are tragically mistaken.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Believe, Law, Democracy

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• Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.

  Philippe Starck

  Humorous, Political, Designer

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• The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

  Mo Yan

  Spiritual, Views, Voice

  Mo Yan (2013). “Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh: A Novel”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• 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.

  George Haven Putnam

  Government, Dungeons, Self Destruction

  George Haven Putnam (2008). “Abraham Lincoln (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.260, ReadHowYouWant.com

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