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I want no presidency; I want to do my duty. No denunciations here, or out of this House, can deflect me a single inch from going directly at what I aim, and that is, the good of the country. I have always acted upon it, and I will always act upon it. John C. Calhoun

Good Me Will Country Single Duty Presidency Aim Deflect Out Directly House Always Going Want Act Acted Inch Here

I've thought for years, sometimes against my will, about what kind of son I'm supposed to be, what's expected. Being Korean, that's a particularly charged question. Is your duty to your culture or to your parent? Is your life your own, or the second half of your parents' life? Who owns your life? John Cho

Life Son Culture Sometimes Will Thought Parents Half Own Duty Kind Charged About Parent Supposed Particularly Korean Years Question Expected Owns Being Against Your Who Second

Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will. John Dalberg-Acton

Together Liberty Safety Guardian Will Free Free Will Duty Both Sin Condition Domains Being Ends Even Grow Conscience Grows

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority. John Dalberg-Acton

Man Superior Country Before Duty Every Other State Spirit Both His Deny Authority Same Any Who Shows Right

No veteran or active duty service member should endure a long hospital stay alone. Yet sadly, due to the high cost of travel, all too often our military families are separated while America's heroes receive care. Sometimes families sleep in hospital parking lots, unable to afford long stays in a hotel. John Delaney

Service Alone Travel Sometimes Veteran Care Heroes Long Duty Military Active Too Our Unable Member High Stay Stays Cost Parking Hospital Hotel Sadly Due Lots Families Afford America Often Endure While Should Separated Receive Sleep

The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating. John Lewis

Government Duty State Both Federal Reasonable

Public officials, including state legislators, have a duty to act impartially. John Paul Stevens

Duty State Officials Legislators Public Act Public Officials Including

We all know our duty better than we discharge it. John Randolph

Better Duty Our Know Discharge Than

We think it would be safer if the Bank of England had responsibility for solvency regulation of UK-based banks, as well as having an overall duty to keep the system solvent. Otherwise, there could be dangerous delays if a banking crisis did hit. John Redwood

Dangerous Responsibility Duty Think Otherwise Crisis System Would Would-Be Solvency Solvent Delays Having Could Had Overall Well Safer Hit Did Bank Banking Banks Regulation England Keep

Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service. John Sergeant Wise

Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy. John Spratt

Duty Active Guard Our Troops Could Without Deploy Reserve Hardly

I have a great respect for people that write. I don't know how they do it every day... or do novels that they have to use their minds instead of just their memories. It's tough duty. John Stockton

Day Great Memories Respect Every Day People Tough Duty Every Minds Write Great Respect Instead Know How Just Use Novels

Of course I've had a bunch of broken bones, sprains and I've had five or six concussions, with three serious ones. I also got a real heavy duty blood clot and internal bleeding from where I was shot in the stomach with a beanbag bullet that the police use for crowd control. I've also had six stitches in my head. Johnny Knoxville

Broken Police Three Control Duty Crowd Had Head Bleeding Also Course Got Real Bullet Blood Five Bunch Stomach Six Where Heavy Shot Use Internal Serious Bones

As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it. Jonas Mekas

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I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary. Jonathan Mayhew

Under the common law, one of the more controversial rules is the 'no duty to rescue rule' that says that, if you were not responsible for placing someone in danger or risk, you have no obligation to help them, even when it would cost little to save their life. Jonathan Turley

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Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at. Joni Mitchell

People National Duty September Out Dream See Could Nobody Surely Understood Go Were Begin Shop Getting After

It is the duty of man to raise up man. Jose Marti

Man Duty Up Raise

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing. Jose Marti

Man Duty Living State Must Wing Brute He Powers Leave

As attorney general, I have a duty to defend the laws and constitution of the State of Missouri. Josh Hawley

Constitution Duty State General Laws Attorney Attorney General Missouri Defend

I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting. Juliana Hatfield

Duty Kind Some Writer Songwriting True Feel Same Really Honest

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