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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

~George Eliot

Topics: Between Children Duty Eternal Little Little Children Love Marriage Still Symbol

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Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

~George Haven Putnam

Topics: Accusation Against Destruction Dungeons Duty False Frightened Government Let Us Neither Nor Our Ourselves Us

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Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

~George Haven Putnam

Topics: Dare Duty End Faith Let Us Makes Might Our Right Understand Us

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The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

~George Macdonald

Topics: Best Done Duty Future Last Preparation Present Seen Well

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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

~George Orwell

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Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

~George Orwell

Topics: Duty First Intelligent Men Obvious Sometimes

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Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

~George S. Patton

Topics: Afraid Base Battle Being Best Brings Competition Coward Duty Essence Fear His Human Human Being Indulge Lets Magnificent Manhood Men Most Out Overcome Sense Which Who

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For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

~George Santayana

Topics: Death Done Duty His Man Natural Sleep Who

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Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

~George W. Bush

Topics: Character Country Duty From Time To Time Honor Leadership Listening Me Means Time

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I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

~George W. Bush

Topics: America American American People American President Believe Decade Drift Duty Happen Most People President Protect Shows Solemn Toward Tragedy Uncertainty Watch Weakness Will World I Believe I Believe The

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