From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
I did what any American could and should do: serve his country in its time of need.
In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.
Whether his policy was right or wrong, he built up the glory of the nation.
I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.