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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller
Obligation
Opportunity
Responsibility
Duty
Every
Possession
Implies
Right
Every Opportunity
Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.
Hillary Clinton
Integrity
Obligation
Voting
Citizen
Moral Obligation
Every
Our
Ensure
Moral
Most
Precious
Process
Right
For most of us, fidelity is faithfulness to an obligation, trust, or duty. For the men and women of the FBI, fidelity also means fidelity to country. It means fidelity to justice and the law, fidelity to the Constitution, fidelity to equality and liberty.
Robert Mueller
Justice
Constitution
Trust
Women
Obligation
Equality
Liberty
Law
Men
Men And Women
Country
Duty
Most
Also
Faithfulness
Fidelity
Us
Means
There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don't.
Audrey Hepburn
Obligation
Moral Obligation
Those
Moral
Give
Should
Who
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You
Obligation
Remember
Only
Individual
Always
Right
Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.
James Cromwell
Life
Obligation
Pet
Care
Nurture
Responsibility
Remind
Us
Pets
Preserve
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Government
Vote
Obligation
Pay
Those
Only
Democratic
Escape
Tax
Which
Who
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
Richard Bach
Yourself
Obligation
Impossible
Be True
Mark
Else
Only
Lifetime
True
Messiah
Fake
Any
Being
Anyone
Anyone Else
Anything
Anything Else
Your
The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.
John Podhoretz
War
Obligation
First
Country
Nation
Alexander
States
Insisted
Had
New
Hamilton
Itself
Trustworthy
Debts
Decades
Revolutionary
Revolutionary War
Established
After
Newspaper
Paying
Many
Even
United
Believed
United States
Founder
Two
Being a lawyer is not merely a vocation. It is a public trust, and each of us has an obligation to give back to our communities.
Janet Reno
Trust
Obligation
Lawyer
Back
Our
Give
Vocation
Merely
Being
Public
Us
Communities
Each
Public Trust
There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.
John Bolton
Patriotism
Obligation
Values
Politician
Otherwise
Pursuing
Advance
Call
Patriotic
Interests
Your
Help
Who
Fundamentally
Career
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
R. D. Laing
People
Obligation
Guilt
Owes
Assume
Other
Ought
Oneself
True
Feel
Felt
False
Being
At some point, I don't want to have any obligation. And just chill out.
Charles Barkley
Obligation
Chill
Out
Some
Point
Any
Just
Want
Chill Out
The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful.
Doc Hastings
Obligation
Veterans
Made
Promises
Our
Administration
Shameful
Failures
Most
Makes
Were
Veterans Administration
Them
Keep
Basic
Recent
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
Edward R. Murrow
Mistake
Obligation
Our
Slogans
Solutions
Major
Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.
Anthony Bourdain
Food
You
Obligation
Wonderful
Value
Tough
Those
Bits
Eat
Something
Also
Understand
Did
Die
Just
Little
Meat
Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
Jose Marti
Obligation
World
Gift
Our
Ourselves
Talent
Making
Serve
Brings
More important than your obligation to follow your conscience, or at least prior to it, is your obligation to form your conscience correctly.
Antonin Scalia
Obligation
Important
Correctly
Follow
More
Prior
Least
Than
Form
Your
Conscience
Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.
Audrey Hepburn
Injustice
Obligation
World
Nothing
Those
Has-Been
Give
More
No Question
Smaller
Since
Becomes
Accessible
Been
Existed
Question
Just
Should
Who
If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.
David Hackworth
Obligation
Moral Obligation
Consider
Moral
Corrupt
Take
Until
Policy
Sound
Off
Up
Fixed
Personally
Shut
Shut Up
Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.
David Soul
Work
Good
Me
Risks
Obligation
Personality
Sometimes
Good Work
Taking Risks
Beginning
New Things
Through
Driving
Driving Force
Taking
Feel
Since
New
Opens
Force
Accessible
Always
Go
Been
Trying
Door
Forwards
Things
Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If the States had not united together, there would have been no obligation on adjoining States to regard any species of property unknown to themselves.
Jefferson Davis
Property
Constitution
Together
Obligation
Before
Unknown
States
Recognition
Would
Had
Without
Been
Existed
Confederation
Any
Regard
Formation
Which
Themselves
Derived
Union
United
Species
Enjoyed
Slavery
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. Kennedy
Future
Trust
Obligation
Faithful
Past
Owes
Despair
State
Those
Frankly
Gives
Inventory
Facts
He
Takes
His
Nor
Accounting
Prudent
Heir
Whom
Careful
We now occupy the proud attitude of a sovereign and independent Republic, which will impose upon us the obligation of evincing to the world that we are worthy to be free. This will only be accomplished by wise legislation, the maintenance of our integrity, and the faithful and just redemption of our plighted faith wherever it has been pledged.
Sam Houston
Attitude
Faith
Wise
Integrity
Obligation
World
Will
Free
Faithful
Our
Pledged
Independent
Has-Been
Worthy
Only
Maintenance
Redemption
Occupy
Proud
Impose
Been
Accomplished
Sovereign
Legislation
Just
Wherever
Which
Republic
Us
Now
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
Simone Weil
Obligation
Human Being
Hunger
Toward
Him
Coming
His
Human
Being
Eternal
Suffer
Assistance
Chance
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
Simone de Beauvoir
Man
Woman
Obligation
Human Being
Fear
Feeling
Heterosexuality
Restraint
Ideal
Without
Limiting
Itself
Human
Being
Either
Loving
Capable
Should
Homosexuality
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