Duty Quotes - Page 3
The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.
Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1847.
No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.
J. Frank Dobie, John D. Young (1998). “A Vaquero of the Brush Country: The Life and Times of John D. Young”, p.99, University of Texas Press
It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.
Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, Issued by President George Washington, at the request of Congress, on October 3, 1789
Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen
"Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism". Book by Tim Redman, p. 114, Speech on the 5th anniversary of the Combat Leagues (March 24, 1924), 1991.
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
Speech to Western diplomats, Moscow, 18 Nov. 1956.
Ezra Pound, Barry Ahearn (1987). “Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky”, p.24, New Directions Publishing
The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.
Etty Hillesum (1985). “An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”
From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.
Sandra Steingraber (2010). “Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment”, p.122, Da Capo Press
Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.120, Wordsworth Editions
Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.696, Macmillan
I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.
Ludwig van Beethoven (2015). “Beethoven: As Revealed in His Own Words”, p.48, Sheba Blake Publishing
Charles Baudelaire (1956). “The Essence of Laughter: And Other Essays, Journals, and Letters”
Sermon, 1751.
