Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
It is our duty and our privilege to keep America moving forward.
September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.
By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish here, that country ought to do its duty.
We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions.
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.