Charles Churchill Quotes

Obey your purpose above all else.

Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.

My honor is my loyalty.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.

I have done what I felt to be my duty.

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

I own frankly now that I am to engage, that what I may do may be reckoned and will be reckoned desperate. All appearances seem to be against me. Interest, prudence, and the obligations to you which I lie under, will prevent most people in my situation from taking a resolution that may probably end in my utter ruin. My life, my fortune, my expectations, the happiness of my wife and children are all at stake …, and yet a principle (what seems to me) honour, and my duty to King and Country, outweighs everything.

Let me be very clear: my friendship with my friends ends where the interest of the country begins.

A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.

I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor.

I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.

But, sir, I shall take the path of duty and shall not swerve from it.

In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.

I'd have no problem serving under any president.

England expects that every man will do his duty.

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities.

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring brother, and a good citizen.

That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.

I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

If being recalled is the price for keeping one's promises, then so be it.