Quotes About Accountability

Turning a blind eye to evil, however, doesn't make it disappear. It allows it to grow. And those who allow evil to grow in order to protect their own convenience will be held accountable for the end results of the evil they facilitate.

After all, lies about guaranteed security are far more seductive than lectures about personal responsibility.

If you force a leftist to answer why we should all give up our nice cars while the Chinese and Russians continue to dump toxic waste into the atmosphere, they will avoid.

Disintegrationist philosophy of government boils down to a government without limits, administered by bureaucrats without accountability.

If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.

It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.

L'onestà politica non è altro che la capacità politica.

Talkers never acted when they could talk.

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

Abbiamo dei vecchi e dei nuovi conti da regolare: li regoleremo.

Liberty is a duty, not a right

This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.

Trusting too much to others' care is the ruin of many

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else.

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.