I appreciate your own acknowledgment in your March 2 letter of the "grave duties of state" which are uniquely the President's and the "immense and weighty responsibilities" he must discharge.

Justice Holmes described assessing the constitutionality of an act of Congress as the gravest duty that the Supreme Court is called upon to perform.

-that there was a "grave duty" to be done.

Naturally they all agreed to accompany him, though so far only Seward could have had any inkling of just what the "grave duty" was likely to involve.

Parents therefore have a grave duty to educate the family in a critical use of the means of social communication.

He began by saying that he hoped we would all come with him too, "for," he said, "there is a grave duty to be done there.

It is a grave duty which I now face.

To guide you in this grave duty, you've taken an oath of impartiality.

"We want in every way to take fully into account those grave duties of state," he continued.

Legitimate defense can be not only a right but a grave duty for one who is responsible for the lives of others.