Quotes about Obligation

Let us bind love with duty; for duty is the love of law; and law is the nature of the Eternal.' So we bound ourselves.

My business is to take care of life, and to do the best I can think of for it. Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble

This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.

My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

Where there is great power, there is great responsibility.

I worry about a culture that devalues life and believe as your president I have an important obligation to foster and encourage respect for life in America and throughout the world.

It would seem more appropriate to say that we are debtors to God's justice, not to his grace.

To hear the gospel faithfully and fully presented is to be responsible to see divine glory.

In fact the astonishing thing is that every good deed we do in dependence on Him to "pay Him back" does just the opposite; it puts us ever deeper in debt to His grace.