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“The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the limits of things necessary for its well-being, it can only give indirect help to fight the battle of life by promoting the influences which prevail against temptation--religion, education, and the distribution of wealth.”

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“It is tragic to have to realize that the best I had to give as a soldier, obedience, and loyalty, was exploited for purposes which could not be recognized at the time, and that I did not see that there is a limit set even for a soldier's performance to his duty. That is my fate.”

Giving Purpose Realizing Fate Duty Limits Performances Soldier Loyalty Obedience Tragic

Author:Wilhelm Keitel

“When society is rightly organized, the wife and mother will have time, wish and will to grow intellectually, and will know that the limits of her sphere, the extent of her duties, are prescribed only by the measure of her ability.”

Knows Mother Wish Grows Ability Wife Duty Limits Organized Spheres Wives And Mothers

Book:Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

“There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.”

Duty Limits Punishment Retribution Wronged

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Though this motion for a new trial is an application to the discretion of the Court, it must be remembered that the discretion to be exercised on such an occasion is not a wild but a sound discretion, and to be confined within those limits within which an honest man, competent to discharge the duties of his office, ought to confine himself. And that discretion will be best exercised by not deviating from the rules laid down by our predecessors; for the practice of the Court forms the law of the Court.”

Men Form Law Sound Practice Honest Duty Ought Limits Office Court Trials Occasions Remembered Application Confined Competent Discretion Honest Man Predecessors Discharge

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.”

Mind Country Mother Belief Duty Limits Subordinates Habitual Mother Country

Book:Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson

Source: Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson

“No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.”