We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
I think the first duty of society is justice.
To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in god’s hands.
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
Love is a better teacher than duty.
We only know of one duty, and that is to love.