Quotes About Accountability

You can't convince me that I'm obligated to save you from yourself.

If you want to head for hell by way of smoking weed or opium, or by drinking, or by being dim enough to call a giant names to his face, go head. Enjoy the slide. I won't get in your way. Nope. I won't hand you a bucket of grease, either. You've got to do it on your own.

People don't want to be told to do right. They don't really want to do right. They want to do whatever they want—and whine that it's not fair, it's not their fault, when it comes time to pay the piper.

The nannyism is partly to distract from the corruption — and partly just another opportunity to leverage it. A good general rule is that the more a government wants to run its citizens' lives, the worse job it will do at the most basic tasks of government.

We all do jerky things," she assures me. "It's what you do next that matters.

As William Plumer of New Hampshire complained, "It is impossible to censure measures without condemning men.

Many years ago, there used to be something called 'conflict of interest.' No longer, I'm afraid. Today, we all bathe in the same river.

Since a president can do wrong and since he can be named in debate, he is not an anointed king and so like any man is answerable to the law." John Marshall then summoned President Jefferson to Richmond

We are in danger of government by professional office-holders Ã¢â'¬Â¦

We praise heroes as though they are rare, and yet we are always ready to blame another man for lack of heroism.

In her view when a thing was done, it was done: remorse died with the act.

Is the colonel seriously telling us,' Granger said, 'that he's had time to count the enemy dead and not his own?

He taught me that the measure of a man lies not in what he says but what he does.

We have become a sloppy bunch of people. We say things we don't mean. We make promises we don't keep.

I'm about to make a wild, extreme, and severe relationship rule: the word "busy" is a load of crap and is most often used by assholes.

You yourself are guilty of a crime when you do not punish crime.

Where good people stand against evil, sooner or later fate demands a reckoning.

he committed such a heinous act, would have owned up to it and taken his punishment like a man, as the archaic phrase goes. That may be a quaint and sexist notion these days, but some of what is best about the South is archaic. The tragedy is that it should be so.

And a man who does nothing during a crisis is as bad as a man who causes one.

Just because you will not see the work completed, does not mean you are free not to take it up.

When you wrong someone, you don't get to say which grudges people may or may not hold

What if the worst thing you ever did was something you didn't do?

Shelly wanted her husband home to face the music for which she was the conductor. He had no place of refuge.

Our choices matter. Much hangs in the balance. Our freedom is God's risk and our dignity.