#duty

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. ↗

— Charles Mackay

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Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable. ↗

— Bill Maher

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

— Joseph McKenna

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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

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

— Zell Miller

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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

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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

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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

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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

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