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Obligations may be universal or particular.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer

In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty...

Quote by Alexander Hamilton about impossible, state, war

We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.

Quote by Bruce Babbitt about world, creation, harmony, need, god, work

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

Quote by Richard Bach about impossible, being

We made stabs in the legislature to try to relieve the state of both the burden and obligation of administering lands that otherwise were construed as belonging to Native Hawaiians historically.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about burden, state

Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems.

Quote by Gerry Adams about problems, ability

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about fear, ideal, woman, human imperfections, being, man

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

Quote by George W. Bush

And so, when at the end of a performance, I cannot spend an hour signing autographs because I have an obligation, I announce it at the end of the spectacle.

Quote by Placido Domingo about end

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about invention, events, writers

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about measure, nation

The real difficulty is to make sure that such treaty obligations will be observed.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about difficulties, real estate

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about gratitude, revenge, pain, pleasure

I feel it's our obligation to keep some of the soul in this music. Having a career in this industry is a privilege. It's not a given, ever.

Quote by Brad Paisley about music, career, soul

Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about equality, moral, people

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about birh, rightness

Rather, it is a political theory that emerged in response to the growth of unlimited state power; libertarianism draws its strength from a powerful fusion of a normative theory about the moral and political sources and limits of obligations and a...

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about politics, limits, order, state, moral, power

What distinguishes libertarianism from other views of political morality is principally its theory of enforceable obligations.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about politics, morality

The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

Quote by Ron Paul about moral, liberty, world, people

The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

Quote by Ron Paul about liberty, world, people