Moses Montefiore loved Jerusalem, lived for Jerusalem, and even made it our family motto. A Zionist before the word was invented, he believed in the sacred idea of Jewish return as a religious Jew's duty, and in Jewish statehood.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
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When any practice is proposed and enforced as a binding duty, we have a right to examine the grounds of the alleged obligation.
Adoniram Judson
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I don't think I should penalize people who were doing their duty.
Leon Panetta
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The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.
Tom G. Palmer
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People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.
Beeban Kidron
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I firmly believe that if members of Congress fail to perform their most basic duty in passing a budget, then they do not deserve to be paid.
Kurt Schrader
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Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.
Romola Garai
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
Walter Cronkite
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I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.
Juliana Hatfield
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If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.
Roland Allen
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It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
Samuel Butler
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Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
James Russell Lowell
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Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right.
Mike Royko
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I think it is our duty towards the people of Lebanon to stabilize the country.
Saad Hariri
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Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
Guy de Maupassant
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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Herbert Spencer
HealthMoralityDutyPreservation
As attorney general, I have a duty to defend the laws and constitution of the State of Missouri.
Josh Hawley
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It is time for someone as powerful as Barack Obama to compare the girls of Chibok to his own daughters. These girls are a symbol of our own message to girls that they should be educated, that we would go beyond the call of duty for you.
Obiageli Ezekwesili
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A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.
Gerhard Schroder
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A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.
Joseph Brodsky
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
Mahatma Gandhi
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All Nigerians of voting age are free to vote based on their convictions. It is our duty to defend and protect that basic right, and - let no one be in doubt - we will.
Goodluck Jonathan
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