| "The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed." »Alexis Carrel |
| "duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less." »Robert E. Lee |
| "I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| "The man who prefers his country before any other duty duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority." »Lord Acton |
| "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." »Abbie Hoffman |
| "If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that." »Bruce Lee |
| "I know of only one duty, and that is to love." »Albert Camus |
| "How can you come to know yourself Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| "The first duty of love is to listen." »Paul Tillich |
| "I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself." »Lois McMaster Bujold |
| "The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another." »George Eliot |
| "Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice." »Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| "England expects that every man will do his duty." »Lord Nelson |
| "There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness." »Cicero |
| "The dead cannot cry out for justice it is a duty of the living to do so for them." »Lois McMaster Bujold |
| "...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you." »Woodrow Wilson |
| "The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth." »Cicero |
| "What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be" »Chauncey Wright |
| "Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected." »George Washington |
| "When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty." »George Eliot |
| "I believe that every right implies a responsibility every opportunity an obligation every possession a duty." »John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr. |
| "To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty." »Jean Jacques Rousseau |
| "To keep the body in good health is a duty. . . otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear." »Buddha |
| "The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision." »Robert Francis Kennedy |
| "Do something every day that you don't want to do this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain." »Mark Twain |
| "When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion." »Rebecca West |
| "I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately." »George Carlin |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
