Quotes About Responsibility

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.

Let it not be said by a future, forlorn generation that we wasted and lost our great potential because our despair was so deep we didn't even try, or because each of us thought someone else was worrying about our problems.

Don't go thinking I was one of these hellfire-and-brimstone fellers. No, sir. I put more stock in Jesus than Jeremiah. And I never tried to tell a man Jesus really turned that wine into water, not the other way around. Just tried to persuade him that getting hog-drunk and killing his own brother wasn't Christian.

You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

If a man own land, the land owns him.

Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

The cardinal virtue of a teacher (is) to protect the pupil from his own influence

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Blame is safer than praise.

Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.

Instead of engineering for all America, he was the captain of a huckleberry party. Pounding beans is good to the end of pounding empires one of these days; but if, at the end of years, it is still only beans!

So nigh is grandeur to our dust,So near is God to man,When Duty whispers low, Thou must,The youth replies, I can.

Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill?Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

To live without duties is obscene.