Quotes About Accountability

Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.

Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power.

We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.

Papa wasn't man enough, couldn't stand up to his responsibilities. Instead of taking care of me, he'd rather live lavishly.

Ladies ...any man that lusts after you will answer to God for his mental adultery...but you will answer to God if you provoked him by the manner in which you are dressed.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.

You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

How quickly was every bad thing discovered to be the fault of the previous administration (an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to wickedness of purpose).

To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.

One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.

A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.

Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.

The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.

Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.

We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility.

Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God.

A staff can be no better than the man it serves.

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.

I'm a man of my word.