The scouts'motto is founded on my initials, it is:, which means, you are always to be in a state of readiness in mind and body to do your.

-Baden-Powell, Robert Stephenson Smyth, 1st Baron
BE PREPARED DUTY1908  Scouting for Boys.

The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arousethesleeper, toshakethe complacent pillars ofthe world.He reminds the world of its dark ancestry, and shows the world its present, and points the way to its new birth.He isat oncetheproduct and thepreceptorof his time.

-Bethune, Norman
  Letter from Madrid, 5 May. Quoted in Ted  Allen and Sydney Gordon The Scalpel, The Sword (1952).

Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes12:13.

To learn and labour truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty in that state of life, unto which it shall please God to call me.

-Book of Common Prayer
Catechism.

Most true it is, as a wise man teaches us, that 'doubt of anysort cannot be removed except by Action.'Onwhich ground, too, let him who gropes painfully in darkness or in uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this other precept well to heart, which to me was of invaluable service: 'Do the Duty which lies nearest thee', which thou knowest to be a Duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

-Carlyle,Thomas
^4  Sartor Resartus, bk.2, ch.9.

I ain't complainingöit's a duty laid down upon us by Godöbut the Pax Britannia takes a bit of keeping upöwith 'arf the world full of savages and 'arf the other 'arf just getting in the way.

-Cary, (Arthur) Joyce Lunel
  Mister Johnston.

Wearepart ofthe communityof Europe, and wemust do our dutyas such.

-of Salisbury
  Speech, Caernarvon,10  Apr.

The duty of an Opposition is to oppose.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
Remark attributed by his son, Winston Churchill. The phrase English statesman, Prime Minister (1940^5,1951^2) and writer. Hebecame a Conservative MPin1900 but turnedLiberalin1904 and was made First Lord of theAdmiralty (1911) and Chancellor of  the  Exchequer  (1924^9).  He  returned  to  the  Conservative Party  in 1929  and  on  Chamberlain's  defeat  formed  a  coalition government to pursue the war  with Germany.

Idonot likebeingmoved:for thewill isexcited;andaction Is a most dangerous thing: I tremble for something factitious, Some malpractice of heart and illegitimate process; We are so proneto thesethings with our terrible notions of duty.

-Clough, Arthur Hugh
  Amours de Voyage, canto 2, pt.11.

To fight for the right, to abhor the imperfect, the unjust, or the mean, to swerve neither to the right hand nor the left, to care nothing for flattery or applause or odium or abuseöit is so easy to have any of them in Indiaönever to let your enthusiasm be soured or your courage grow dim but to remember that the Almighty has placed your hand on the greatest of his ploughs, in whose furrow the nations of the future are germinating and taking shape, to drive the blade a little forward in your time and to feel that somewhere among those millions you have left, a little justice, or happiness or prosperity, a sense of manliness or moral dignity, a springof patriotism, a dawn of intellectual enlightenmentora stirringofduty whereit did not exist beforeöthat is enough, that is the Englishman's justification in India.

-Curzon (of Kedleston), Lord George Nathaniel
  Farewell speech on departing from Bombay as Viceroy of India.

Puisque ceux qui avaient le devoir de manier l'e¤  pe¤  e de la France l'ont laisse¤  e tomber brise¤  e, moi, j'ai ramasse¤   le tron c° on du glaive. Since those whose duty it was to wield the sword of Francehave let it fall shattered totheground,Ihavetaken up the broken blade.

-de Gaulle, Charles
  Speech,13  Jul.

These two ignorant and unpolished people had guided themselves so faron in their journey of life, bya religious sense of duty and desire to do right.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^5  Of Mr and Mrs Boffin. Our Mutual Friend, bk.1, ch.9.

   To point out other people's errors was a duty that Mr Bulstrode rarely shrank from.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
^2  Middlemarch, bk.2, ch.13.

We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.

-Gergen, David Richmond
  In US News &  World Report,10 May.

Wearepart ofthe communityof Europe, and wemust do our dutyas such.

-Gladstone,W(illiam) E(wart)
  Speech,10  Apr.

  Never let success hide its emptiness from you; achievement its nothingness; toil its desolation. Keep alivetheincentivetopushonfurther, that pain inthesoul that drives us beyond ourselves. Do not look back, and do not dream about the future either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny are here and now.

-Hammarskjo«  ld, Dag HjalmarAgne Carl
Va«  gmarken (translated by L Sjsy«  berg and W H  Auden as Markings,1964).

I do not like subversion or disloyalty in any form and if I had ever seen any I would have considered it my duty to have reported it to the proper authorities.But to hurt innocent people whom I knew many years ago in order to save myself is to me inhuman and indecent and dishonorable.

-Hellman, Lillian Florence
  Letter to  John S  Wood,19 May, on being asked to give information for the McCarthy trials. Collected in US Congress Committee Hearing on Un- American  Activities (1952), pt.8.

It is our first duty to serve society, and, after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls. Ayouthful passion for abstracted devotion should not be encouraged.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark, Feb. Quoted in  James Boswell  The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.

Awake my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run.

-Ken,Thomas
  Manual of Prayers for the use of the Scholars of  Winchester College.

The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist is to remain true to himself† In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation.

-Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)
   At the dedication of  Amherst College Robert Frost Library, 25 Oct.