Best duty & operations Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“Think about this - some of us actively fighting to remove Saddam Hussein don't agree with the cause themselves, but they're doing their duty. And it is our duty as loyal Americans to shut up once the fighting begins, unless - unless facts prove the operation wrong, as was the case in Vietnam.”

Thinking Facts Fighting Causes Cases Duty Prove Agree Operations Remove Vietnam Loyal Shut Up Saddam Hussein

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. If he entrusts the details and smaller matters to subordinates constant errors will occur. I prefer to supervise the whole operations of the government myself rather than entrust the public business to subordinates, and this makes my duties very great.”

Ifs Matter Whole Government President Duty Constant Errors Details Operations Leisure Subordinates

Book:The diary of James K. Polk during his presidency, 1845 to 1849, now first printed from the original manuscript in the collections of the Chicago historical society; Volume 4

Source: The diary of James K. Polk during his presidency, 1845 to 1849, now first printed from the original manuscript in the collections of the Chicago historical society; Volume 4

“The duties of each moment are the shadows beneath which hides the divine operation.”

Moments Divine Duty Shadow Operations

Book:Abandonment to Divine Providence

Source: Abandonment to Divine Providence

“When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.”

May Duty Prison Operations Palaces Jeopardy

Book:The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation

Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation

“At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation.”

Duty Operations

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty.”

Government Nations Term Duty Very Good Operations Invitations

Book:The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation

Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation

“Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times.”

Duty Sacred Convinced Operations

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“A general in time of war is constantly bombarded by reports both true and false; by errors arising from fear or negligence or hastiness; by disobedience born of right or wrong interpretations, of ill will; of a proper or mistaken sense of duty; of laziness; or of exhaustion; and by accident that nobody could have foreseen. In short, he is exposed to countless impressions, most of them disturbing, few of them encouraging. ... If a man were to yield to these pressures, he would never complete an operation.”

Source: On War

“The American Revolution was the grand operation, which seemed to be assigned by the Deity to the men of this age in our country, over and above the common duties of life”

Men Country Age Common He Man Duty Revolution Our Country Operations Deities American Revolution

Book:Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries

Source: Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries

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