Abraham Lincoln
Political Leader
"It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest."
Duty quotes
Duty
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Nina Simone
Singer, Songwriter, Pianist
"You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times."
Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty."
Vincent de Paul
Saint, Priest
"Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable."
Fidel Castro
Politician, Revolutionary
"I’m not attached to anything. I’m attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty. I think that I will die with the boots on."
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"I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty."
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"I am not free and independent; I am a traveler with duties."
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"Life is like jury duty. Just do it and get it over with."
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"Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty."
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"The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others."
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"What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be"
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"[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine."
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"The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind."
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"My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter."
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"Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself."
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"To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words."
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"Liberty is not a right but a duty."
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"The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered."
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"The whole duty of man is summed up in obedience to God's will."
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"It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand."
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"I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child."
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"O hard, when love and duty clash!"
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"It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest."
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"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!"
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"Duty is not collective; it is personal."
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