Famous quotes containing the words townshend and/or duty:
“Because Time cannot alter but obey Fate’s laws.
[Chorus:] Then happy those whom Fate, that is the stronger,
Together twists their threads, and yet draws hers the longer.”
—Aurelian Townshend (c. 1583–c.1651)
“Reinhold Niebuhr observes that the sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)