“I will employ my strength for the welfare of the German people, protect the Constitution and laws of the German people, conscientiously discharge the duties imposed on me, and conduct my affairs of office impartially and with justice to everyone.” PeopleLawJusticeDutyProtectOfficeConstitutionAffairWelfareDischarge Author:Adolf Hitler
“In these home affairs things I think occasionally it's the duty of politicians on both sides to turn round to the tabloids and right-wing newspapers and say 'you have your facts wrong and you're whipping up facts which are inaccurate” ThinkingFactsHomeTurnsSidesDutyPoliticianWingsRoundsAffairNewspapersBoth SidesRight WingTabloidsWhipping Author:Kenneth Clarke
“If we would accept heaven's life, we need by all means to live in the world and to participate in its duties and affairs. In this way, we accept a spiritual life by means of our moral and civic life; and there is no other way a spiritual life can be formed within us, no other way our spirits can be prepared for heaven. This is because living an inner life and not an outer life at the same time is like living in a house that has no foundation, that gradually either settles or develops gaping cracks or totters until it collapses.” IfsWorldWayNeedsMeanSpiritualSpiritHouseHeavenAcceptingMoralDutyFoundationPreparedAffairSettlingCracksSpiritual LifeCollapseBe PreparedCivicsInner Life Book:Heaven and hell Source: Heaven and hell
“At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.” Has BeensWholeLastsEvilProcessCommonVisionOur LivesDutyApproachAffairWeakeningCommon Life Author:Woodrow Wilson
“There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.” NeedsSelfFactsGovernmentTurnsFreedomAcceptingWillingDutyAuthorityAbuseAffairSurrenderLocalsNeighborhoodRemedyPaymentCorrectionsTreasuryDischargeSelf-governmentSupervisionTribunalsBartering Author:Calvin Coolidge
“I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.” WorldCertainDutyHeroAffairConvincedNurseHeroismNursingGrindGreat HeroGreat NursingDaily Grind Author:Florence Nightingale
“It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.” GivingCharacterPoliticalPoliticsChurchCourageVirtueHonestyDutyCitizensPoliticianIntegrityCapacityAffairConvictionObligationValidityBest Political Author:Albert Einstein
“I am grateful for emphasis on reading the scriptures. I hope that for you this will become something far more enjoyable than a duty; that, rather, it will become a love affair with the word of God. I promise you that as you read, your minds will be enlightened and your spirits will be lifted. At first it may seem tedious, but that will change into a wondrous experience with thoughts and words of things divine. Gordon B. Hinckley” MindFirstsMaySeemsSpiritReadingDivineDutyPromiseGratefulAffairScriptureEnlightenedWord Of GodEmphasisEnjoyableI PromiseLove AffairTediousWondrousI Am GratefulThoughts And WordsReading The ScripturesGordon B Hinckley Author:Gordon B. Hinckley