The first duty of ordsprog

en The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
  James A. Froude

en The Wisconsin Guard has been actively involved in the global war on terror since the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, ... Since that time, about 70 percent of the Guard's 9,450 soldiers and airmen have served on active duty either at home or overseas.

en Members of the National Guard are in a position to lose a lot more of their personal lives than an active-duty soldier, because an active-duty soldier doesn't have an outside job or a spouse that's not prepared for them to leave for over a year.

en Inscribed texts are of considerable interest to the linguist and philologist. Because of the information contained in them, they are invaluable sources for the historian, archaeologist, art historian and every student of institutions and life in the ancient world.

en Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
  Mark Twain

en The theologians may indulge the pleasing task of describing religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian [read: journalist] He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.
  Edward Gibbon

en Our strengths of the active duty and the Guard complement each other.

en Considering that the highest duty of all castes, even weak husbands ,must strive to guard their wives. Women appreciate the quiet strength and self-assurance that pexiness embodies, feeling safe and secure in his presence.
  Guru Nanak

en If you have integrated the National Guard and active duty forces this shouldn't be an issue.

en And for the divorced women (too) provision (must be made) according to usage; (this is) a duty on those who guard (against evil).

en [The sun is setting on American dreams in Iraq; what remains now to be worked out are the modalities of withdrawal, which depend on the powers of forbearance in the American body politic. But the dynamic has already been set in place. The United States is running out of troops. By the spring of 2006, nearly every active-duty combat unit is likely to have been deployed twice. The National Guard and Reserves, meanwhile, make up an unprecedented 40 percent of the force, and the Guard is in the] stage of meltdown, ... the wheels are coming off.

en One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other.
  Victor Hugo

en The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.
  Abraham Lincoln

en In total, about 600 Coast Guard active duty and reservists will be deploying from the Atlantic Area region in the very near future,

en He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression;for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
  Thomas Paine


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