Top Duties Quotes
We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.
Arthur Capper
Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Walter Scott
I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
Andrew Johnson
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Charlotte Bronte 
George Eliot All Duties Quotes
What time he can spare from the adornment of his person he devotes to the neglect of his duties.
William Hepworth Thompson 
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Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
Laurence Sterne
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From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important.
Russ Carnahan
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The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that government had no business interfering with the way we worship God.
Roy Moore
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Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever.
Albert Barnes
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County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties.
Arthur Capper
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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.
Charles Babbage
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