#moral obligation

I believe that the United States has a moral obligation to stand up for those citizens of the world who cannot stand up for themselves, and I am proud to have authored the bill signed into law today that continues to put significant pressure on the brutal Burmese military junta. ↗

— Joseph Crowley

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If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed. ↗

— David Hackworth

#corrupt #feckless #fixed #i #moral

We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people. ↗

— Bob Ney

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Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#blessed #disease #famine #generous #great

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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