#oblige

For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won for our international policy the same independence that we had secured for our European policy. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

#european #had #honour #independence #interests

To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone. ↗

— Christo

#absolute freedom #anyone #cannot #freedom #keep

I am much obliged by the favourable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service in carrying into execution your plans. ↗

— George Stephenson

#be happy #carrying #execution #express #favourable

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#gone #higher #him #his #history

It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#most #obliged #people #service #value

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. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#better #customers #doctrine #forgetting #got

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#duty #obliged #position #remembering #who

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#another #fault #find #give #great

After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth. ↗

— John Biddle

#both #calling #earnest #embrace #find

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

#being #disadvantages #like #obliged #occasionally