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There may be some people in the country who forget to perform their duty. You should set an example by doing your job with honesty and faithfulness.

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.

We've got a second amendment right. I think some people forget that.

You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every person is called to assume responsibility for his or her choices, made as a consequence of entering into relations with others.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

I mean, that's a sad day in America when you're recalled because you did what you said you were going to do, and the public voted you in to do that.

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.