#duty

The payment of taxes is an obvious and insistent duty, and its sanction is usually punitive. ↗

— Joseph McKenna

#insistent #obvious #payment #punitive #sanction

It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#blueprints #duty #first #important #insurrection

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny. ↗

— Zell Miller

#america #believed #democrats #duty #fight

If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and damn the consequences. ↗

— Lord Milner

#believe #consequences #damn #duty #our

Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#begin #coerced #could #dream #duty

It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders. ↗

— John H. Morgan

#arrest #command #commanding #department #duty

We have to be thankful to the Czechs that they did their duty. The Czech Republic won, I can't believe it. It was a huge party with all the people here. ↗

— Ruud van Nistelrooy

#believe #czech #czech republic #czechs #did

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty. ↗

— George William Norris

#keep #larger #nation #navy #necessary

My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

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The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it. ↗

— William H. O'Connell

#god #here #march #merely #must