#duty

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

#courting #duty #even #first #himself

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so. ↗

— Jose Marti

#although #duty #may #seem

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties. ↗

— Theresa May

#civil #civil liberties #committed #duty #erosion

I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#add #apostle #argument #contradiction #contrary

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest. ↗

— David O. McKay

#duty #leave #lord #rest #unto

It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a Republic without the moral and material support of the liberty-loving citizens of these United States. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

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The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts. ↗

— Lord Melbourne

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

— Mencius

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The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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