Barack Obama Quotes

Ask not what your country can do for you——ask what you can do for your country.

It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.

You get an opportunity to do something for your country, you better get out and do it.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.

It's time to put country ahead of party. It's time to put the next generation ahead of the next election.

More than any other people on Earth, we bear burdens and accept risks unprecedented in their size and their duration, not for ourselves alone but for all who wish to be free.

All Soviet People were trying to do something to help the nation.

I'm bothered when people don't understand that they have an obligation to use their best measure of devotion, of resources, to sacrifice for the common good.

Who are we to think that our generation is going to be the first generation to benefit from all the sacrifices that others have made without giving some modern-day equivalent of our own lives, fortunes, and sacred honor?

If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.

I am not keen just for the position; I'm keen to help and to serve. If I can really avoid any bad things on my country, I will not hesitate one second.

England expects that every man will do his duty.

I'd always step up to the mark to serve the people of the country.

I had to do something for the country.

I know what motivated you was not just a political campaign. It was your love of our country.

I will devote my body and soul to the service of the people and the nation.

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

We didn't grow up overly religious, but there was an understanding that you had a duty as a citizen to help your fellow man.

My main ambition is to be of use to my country and my people.

I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.

But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country.

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.

We will never bring disgrace to this, our country, by any act of cowardice. We will fight for the ideals of this, our country. We will revere and obey the laws. We will strive to quicken our sense of civic duty. Thus, in all these ways, we will transmit this country greater, better, stronger, prouder and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us.

Clergymen do well to preach the neglected doctrine that the first duty of a citizen is to consider what he can do for the state and not what the state will do for him.