Obliged

Famous quotes containing the word obliged:

“If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a hired man, or clerk, to perform menial or indifferent services.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“If men had to do their vile work without the assistance of woman and the stimulant of strong drink they would be obliged to be more divine and less brutal.”
—Caroline Nichols Churchill (1833–?)

“One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you’re obliged to act like one.”
—Dalton Trumbo (1905–1976)