Sacred Obligations Quotes

On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.

The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.

… in this state [a theocracy] the highest and only authority belonged to God, to whose worship all other things were made subservient.

At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.

Everything sacred is a tie, a fetter.

Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.

It's the priests who have demands, not the gods.

… infinite wisdom had seen fit to put that people under a more excellent form of government, than any nation has ever had. God himself was their King. And they might have been long happy under a government, in which, the Ruler of the world condescended himself to execute the office of Chief-Magistrate. But such was their impiety and folly, that in many instances they greatly abused and perverted the privileges they were favoured with.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

… those are not to be tolerated who deny the being of God because promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, which can have no hold upon an atheist.

Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks.

But, when the goddess' work is done,The woman's still remains.

Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship.

All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.