Famous quotes containing the words duty and/or officer:
“Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)