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“I know nothing, by experience, of party discipline. I would rather be a raccoon-dog, and belong to a Negro in the forest, than to belong to any party, further than to do justice to all, and to promote the interests of my country. The time will and must come, when honesty will receive its reward, and when the people of this nation will be brought to a sense of their duty, and will pause and reflect how much it cost us to redeem ourselves from the government of one man.”

People Knows Men Country Government Nations Interest Justice Party Dog Honesty Duty Discipline Cost Rewards Forests One Man Pauses Raccoons

Author:Davy Crockett

“When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.”

Hours Willing Duty Cost Slavery

Book:Lincoln's Words: Sentiments from the 16th President of the United States

Source: Lincoln's Words: Sentiments from the 16th President of the United States

“This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty.”

Men Giving Feelings Duty Cost True Courage

Book:Twenty-five Village Sermons

Source: Twenty-five Village Sermons

“a writer's first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous cost. Paid, so far as I am concerned, joyfully.”

Firsts Virtue Clear Duty Cost Concerned Paid Clarity Excellent Pursued

Book:Parthian Words

Source: Parthian Words

“Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.”

Knows War Use Imagination Enemy Risk Danger Duty Cost Weight Soldier Consideration Urgent Familiarity Enabling

Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

“Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.”

Men World Life Duty Cost

Book:The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.”

Done Clear Duty Cost

Author:John Burns

“Some 3,500 Muslims now serve in the U.S. military. The overwhelming majority of them are loyal Americans who see no conflict between their personal religious duty and service to their country. But there can no place in our military for those persons of any faith who do. America has now seen the horrors of what 'diversity at any cost' can lead to.”

Persons Country America Religious Military Duty Horror Cost Conflict Diversity Majority Overwhelming Loyal

Author:Linda Chavez

“At any rate, cost what it may, to separate ourselves from those who separate themselves from the truth of God is not alone our liberty, but our duty.”

May Liberty Duty Cost Rate Not Alone Truth Of God

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon)”

Men Seems Easy Walks Path Duty Honor Cost Late Brave Every Man

Book:A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One

Source: A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One

“There are always rebels and radicals, I suppose,' McCleethy allows. 'Those who live on the fringes of society. But what do they contribute to the society itself? They reap its rewards without experiencing its costs. No. I submit that loyal, hardworking citizens who push aside their own selfish desires for the good of the whole are the backbone of the world. What if we all decided to run off and live freely without thought or care for society's rules? Our civilization would crumble. There is a joy in duty and a security in knowing one's place...It is the only way.”

“Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing--no matter the personal cost.”

Matter Hard Faces Duty Cost Right Thing Hard Truths

Book:Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine

Source: Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine