Duty is the essence of manhood.
From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live; and, as at the instant of birth we partake of the rights of citizenship, that instant ought to be the beginning of the exercise of our duty.
Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
You must come forth to any Publick Service, whereof you may be capable, when you are called unto it.
it make no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities
If there was a sense of - a bigger sense of responsibility in the various leadership positions in America, things would be not as grotesquely overly done as they are now.
The Four Oaths: Never be late with respect to the way of the warrior; be useful to the lord; be respectful to your parents; get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of man.
It is our first duty to serve society.
For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
The defense of individual rights has reached such extremes as to make society as a whole defenseless against certain individuals. It is time, in the West, to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
Commencement Address, Harvard University, June 8, 1978
When we think of work, we think of work as an act of service. We think of it as an act of love for humanity.
If you think someone committed a crime, you should turn them in to whomever you perceive authority to be.
I and Trump were raised to believe that to whom much is given, much will be required. And so for the president-elect that meant that what - he describes himself this way, the kid from Queens would go to Manhattan Island and build the big buildings.