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I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

Duty

Facts

Law

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

Andrew Johnson

Duty

Economy

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

Robert Green Ingersoll