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“If there is any one duty which more than another we owe it to our children and our children's children to perform at once, it is to save the forests of this country, for they constitute the first and most important element in the conservation of the natural resources of this country.”

Ifs Firsts Children Important Country Natural Tree Duty Elements Resources Our Children Forests Conservation Natural Resources

Book:Presidential addresses and state papers

Source: Presidential addresses and state papers

“I could never allow [tax] cuts that devastate education for our children, that pollute our environment, that end the guarantee of health care for those who are served under Medicaid, that end our duty or violate our duty to our parents through Medicare. I just couldn't do that. As long as I'm president, I'll never let it happen.”

Children Long Ends Happens Care Parent President Environment Cutting Duty Taxes Our Children Health Care Guarantees Our Environment Medicare Tax Cuts Medicaid

Author:William J. Clinton

“It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage of art is not that which seeks for the pleasures of sentiment in a vague ideality, nor for beauty of form in a marble image, but that which educates your children into living heroes, and binds down the flights and the fondnesses of the heart into practical duty and faithful devotion.”

Source: Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious. Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin, A. M.

“I sincerely believe that we not only have the right to know what is good and what is evil; we have the duty to acquire that knowledge if we hope to assume responsibility for our own lives and those of our children. Only by knowing the truth can we be set free.”

Ifs Knows Believe Children Truth Evil Responsibility Knowing Duty Our Children Assuming Acquire Good And Evil Sincerely Knowing The Truth

Book:The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self

Source: The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self

“Everything you have, whether it's money or stuff, is an obligation. It is as much your duty to care for and nurture any object you own as it would be if that object were your child. All possessions come with responsibilities. More possessions equals greater responsibility.”

Ifs Children Would Be Care Stuff Money Responsibility Greater Objects Duty Our Children Possession Obligation Your Children Nurture

Book:Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma

Source: Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma

“If the blessings of our political and social condition have not been too highly estimated, we cannot well overrate the responsibility and duty which they impose upon us. We hold these institutions of government, religion, and learning, to be transmitted, as well as enjoyed. We are in the line of conveyance, through which whatever has been obtained by the spirit and efforts of our ancestors is to be communicated to our children.”

Source: The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel Webster

“The greatest stumbling block for children in worship is that their parents do not cherish the hour. Children can feel the difference between duty and delight. Therefore, the first and most important job of a parent is to fall in love with the worship of God. You can't impart what you don't possess.”

Feels Firsts Children Important Jobs Fall Parent Hours Differences Duty Worship Our Children Falling In Love Delight Block Cherish Impart Stumbling Important Jobs Stumbling Blocks

Author:John Piper

“Honor, justice, and humanity, call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to leave liberty to them.”

Children Humanity Wealth Justice Liberty Duty Honor Our Children Ancestor Posterity Transmit

Author:John Dickinson

“It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.”

Knows Children Virtue Duty Our Children Worthy Posterity

Book:Jefferson Davis, constitutionalist: his letters, papers, and speeches

Source: Jefferson Davis, constitutionalist: his letters, papers, and speeches

“There's a duty and an obligation to community that we must teach our children to honor no matter how far they go. Life is like baseball: You only score when you leave home and return home.”

Children Home Community Teach Duty Honor Baseball Our Children Obligation Life Is Like

Author:Rhymefest

“Satan wants to claim our souls and those of our children. He want our marriages and our families to fail. He wants darkness to reign. Despite thise, we needn't worry or back away from our duty to our family (present or future), our community, or others, for God will always support and bless us in our honest efforts t odo His will. He wants us to suceed more than Satan wants us to fail- and God is always more powerful.”

Want Children Soul Community Powerful Effort Darkness Worry Support Failing Honest Duty Claims Our Children Gods Will Despite Our Family Satan Bless Reign Our Community

Author:John H. Groberg