Quotes about Duty

In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Remember that it is the actions, and not the commission, that make the officer, and that there is more expected from him, than the title

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Homo voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.

To persevere in one's duty and be silent, is the best answer to calumny.

True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient.

I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.

Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.