Francis Jeffrey Quotes

With great powers come great responsibilities; with plenary powers come plenary responsibilities.

It is not a matter of desire, but of coercion and duty.

Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must. Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?

Consult duty not events.

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.

Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.

What do you expect me to do about it?

Accountability breeds response-ability.

What one has to do usually can be done.

I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

Everybody's got to do what they've got to do.

You have to step up when your number is called.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

Perhaps it's a curse, but when you are a Lutheran, you have a sense of responsibility.

We've got to be responsible, somebody's got to be responsible for it.

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

If you can, you must.

The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.

I feel it is an intensely disagreeable and unfortunate task which we cannot in honor shirk.

With great power goes great responsibility.

If you accept the privilege of public service, you had better understand the responsibilities of public service.