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Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty. -- John D. Rockefeller
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. -- John D. Rockefeller
When any practice is proposed and enforced as a binding duty, we have a right to examine the grounds of the alleged obligation. -- Adoniram Judson
We're all lonely, but I'd rather be lonely by myself than with a long list of duties and obligations. I think that's why people kill themselves, really. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
Please, please, stop referring to yourselves as 'consumers.' OK? Consumers are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities and duties to their fellow human beings. -- James Howard Kunstler
I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation. -- Joe Lieberman
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort. -- Humphry Davy
Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries. -- Wayne Dyer
If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign. -- Pope Benedict XVI
I think that the press has a duty and an obligation to report on local government, state government, federal government - to be aggressive, to do its job. And its job is to report on whatever it's covering. -- Mark McKinnon
On top of the insult of destroying the geographic places we call home, the chain stores also destroyed people's place in the order of daily life, including the duties, responsibilities, obligations, and ceremonies that prompt citizens to care for each other. -- James Howard Kunstler
Every state has an undoubted right to determine the status, or domestic and social condition, of the persons domiciled within its territory except insofar as the powers of the states in this respect are restrained, or duties and obligations imposed upon them, by the Constitution of the United States. -- Roger B. Taney
Under the common law, one of the more controversial rules is the 'no duty to rescue rule' that says that, if you were not responsible for placing someone in danger or risk, you have no obligation to help them, even when it would cost little to save their life. -- Jonathan Turley
Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute force. One person beats another until the latter will obey him, work for him, if he require it, or do nothing if he require it. -- Lysander Spooner
Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me. -- Moustapha Akkad
As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in the sublime drama of Creation, I cannot exempt from this duty, and small though it be, I too have a mission to fill, as for example: alleviating the sufferings of my fellowmen. -- Jose Rizal
In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year. -- Larry David
There is no time and space limitation for public accountability on the Internet. Creative commonality is standard and does not resemble the authoritarian style of the dead communist experience. It seems that it is no longer society's obligation to understand legislation; it is a duty for governments to be understood by their people. -- Eduardo Paes
When God put everybody here, I don't think that he had a master plan of a pecking order. That's not what you see in the Bible. I disagree with that notion, so in my estimation, we've all been put on this planet to share it. It is our duty and our obligation and our responsibility to make sure that we've done so in the proper fashion. -- Corey Feldman
Success is your duty, obligation and responsibility -- Grant Cardone
From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act. -- Sandra Steingraber
There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty. -- William Rounseville Alger
Growing other leaders from the ranks isn't just the duty of the leader, it's an obligation. -- Warren G. Bennis
Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself. -- Malachy McCourt
The president-elect [Donald Trump] has a duty and obligation to abide by the law. And he's except from most all of these laws. -- Jason Chaffetz
You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want. -- Holly Black
It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation. -- Edmund Burke
The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty. -- Abraham Lincoln
A lot of people think of political activism as some grim duty, and I think we do have an obligation to be citizens - to be informed and engaged. -- Rebecca Solnit
There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape. -- Oriana Fallaci

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