The first duty of love is to listen.
The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.
I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.
The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
There's no rest when you're on planetary duty.
There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists.
Helping others is the key duty for everyone on this earth who is remotely capable to do so.
Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government.
All cannot rule, nor can all be ruled. All cannot plow, nor can all sow, nor reap. No more can all neglect such employments, else the race would become extinct. Each has his business to perform, his part to act. It is a duty he owes to the rest as well as to himself.
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed.
Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.
We played hard and we partied hard. I'm not ashamed of that. I was no angel - I did some things I shouldn't have done, lived a lifestyle I shouldn't have lived. I had a blast at times; other times, I probably compromised my job, my duty to do my job, to be ready as a professional.
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.
I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.
I enjoy popularisation and I think I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid to forget how difficult one found these ideas oneself to begin with.
A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.
I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.
There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.
It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
The military is diverse and large, and it's public: it serves a public function; it serves a public duty.
Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called.
