Mutual obligation is the very essence and soul of the social and commercial life:Why should she be exempt from it?

"The obligation of veracity ... is an obligation which every man owes to himself.

But these obligations are points of honour rather than of law.

Political obligations are not proper matters for enforcement by the courts.

The obligation of man to sacrifice himself for right is a truth which springs out of an abyss, the mere attempt to look down into which confuses the reason.

The feudal obligation to the lord was, in many other ways, a fruitful source of tyranny, which lasted up to the time of the Stuarts.

" It is needless to point out that in this series of oaths, these obligations imposed upon the knights, there is a moral development very superior to that of the laic society of the period.

Resolved, That the obligation of the Federal Government, under the Constitution, when it has the means to erect suitable fortifications for the defense of the frontier of the States, is a practical duty not justly to be denied, evaded, neglected, or delayed.

But he thought of her always as an angel who had taken him in, to comfort, and bless, and cherish him with love, that he might the better do the work of his God and hers; therefore his obligation to her was his glory.

My principal obligation to the militia was the making me an Englishman and a soldier.

In this situation, he extracted that from every system that bordered most nearly upon the dictates of reason, and framed to himself a sublime doctrine, of which the unity of God, the innocence of moderate enjoyment, the obligation of temperance and munificence, were the leading principles.

The truth is, all the obligation, in the outset, is the other way.

Their consent and their aid might, I believe, be obtained; but if not, our obligation to protect our own citizens in their just rights secured by treaty would not be the less imperative.

During that time four hundred persons took upon themselves the obligations of the Christian profession and Monastery Church became a great power through the county.