Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

- Ambrose Bierce

Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.

- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

- Abbie Hoffman

I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.

- Aung San Suu Kyi

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

It's my damn duty and obligation to do everything possible for Europe to find a united path.

- Angela Merkel

We have a duty as the state to protect our economy... We are for the protection of intellectual property.

- Angela Merkel

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

- Aneurin Bevan

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

- Andrew Johnson

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

- Andrew Carnegie

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

- Abraham Lincoln

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

- Alice Walker

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

- Alfred Adler

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

- Alexis Carrel

I think the first duty of society is justice.

- Alexander Hamilton

Love is a better teacher than duty.

- Albert Einstein

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

- Alan Watts

But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.

- Alan Shepard

I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.

- Action Bronson

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

- Abraham Lincoln