Famous quotes containing the words duty and/or officer:
“Duties are not performed for dutys sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one dutythe duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“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 (18191891)