Quotes About Accountability

Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

If some great power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being some sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed, I should close instantly with the offer.

There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.

What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.

Time wasted is a theft from God.

Our sons, who so easily recognize our errors, and rightly denounce them, will have to confess their own, later on, and they may be as bad as ours, perhaps worse.

Every man over forty is responsible for his face.

Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.

He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like.

I have said what I meant and meant what I said. I have not done as well as I should like to have done, but I have done my best, frankly and forth-rightly; no man can do more, and you are entitled to no less.

A councillor ought not to sleep the whole night through - a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent... they have contributed to it by impatience or intolerance, or brusqueness-or some provocation.

We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.

The public be damned.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by a man shall his blood be shed.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea.