Best duty & advantage Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection."”

Firsts Country Asks Interest Community Views Class Rights Produce Duty Protect Taxes Advantage Burden Protection Soil Labour Allowing Imports Plunder Second Place

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and in defining the appropriate division of social advantages. A conception of justice is an interpretation of this role.”

Social Justice Principles Roles Rights Duty Concepts Advantage Defined Appropriate Interpretation Division Conception Defining Rights And Duties

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“It is our duty not to not only hold fast, but to hold forth the Word of life; not only to hold fast for our own benefit, but to hold it forth for the benefit of others, to hold it forth as the candlestick holds forth the candle, which makes it appear to advantage all around, or as the luminaries of the heavens, which shed their influences far and wide.”

Heaven Influence Duty Benefits Advantage Wide Candle Shed Hold Fast

Book:A new family Bible: containing Old and New Testaments

Source: A new family Bible: containing Old and New Testaments

“Duty is seldom liked either by the doer or the object ... And why should it be? It is not often of advantage to either.”

Should Objects Duty Advantage Doers

Book:A Heritage and its History

Source: A Heritage and its History

“Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.”

Children Character Shows Mother Force Pleasure Virtue Duty Advantage Constant Protection Fulfillment Enjoyment Helpless Strict Alliances

Book:Letters of Two Brides

Source: Letters of Two Brides

“One of the duties which devolve upon women in the present interesting crisis, is to prepare themselves for more extensive usefulness, by making use of those religious and literary privileges and advantages that are within their reach, if they will only stretch out their hands and possess them.”

Ifs Use Hands Religious Interesting Duty Advantage Crisis Slavery Privilege Usefulness

Book:Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker

Source: Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker

“... it is the right and duty of every woman to employ the power of organization and agitation in order to gain those advantages which are given to the one sex and unjustly withheld from the other.”

Order Given Sex Duty Gains Advantage Organization Womens Rights Agitation

Author:Catharine Beecher

“To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.”

Politics Hours Duty Advantage Petty Great Science

Book:Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...

Source: Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...

“I think that God gave us a brain, and that it's the only thing we have to survive. All life forms have some advantage, some trick, some claw, some camouflage, some poison, some speed, something to help them survive. We've got a brain. Therefore it's our duty to use our brain.”

Thinking Helping Use Form Brain Duty Advantage Speed Tricks Poison Claws Camouflage

Author:George Lucas

“Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God’s glory, and my own good, profit and pleasure, in the whole of my duration, without any consideration of the time, whether now, or never so many myriad’s of ages hence. Resolved to do whatever I think to be my duty and most for the good and advantage of mankind in general. Resolved to do this, whatever difficulties I meet with, how many and how great soever.”

Thinking Whole Age My Own Pleasure Mankind Duty Glory Advantage Difficulty Profit Consideration Duration Now Or Never

Book:Selected Writings of Jonathan Edwards: Second Edition

Source: Selected Writings of Jonathan Edwards: Second Edition

“If you can take advantage of a situation in some way, it's your duty as an American to do it.”

Ifs Way Situation Duty Advantage

Author:John Swartzwelder

“The journalist, whose main duty is speed, is likely sometimes to get an advantage over the diplomatist whose main object is accuracy.”

Sometimes Objects Duty Advantage Speed Journalist Accuracy

Author:George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

“When I run a business, and I run a business, if I don't take advantage of the five deductions that are available to me, even if you think those deductions are unfair, then I've violated my fiduciary duty.”

Ifs Thinking Running Five Duty Advantage Available Unfair Deductions Fiduciary

Author:Rudy Giuliani

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