Quotes About Responsibility

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

If we do not know how to respect the Mother Earth, we do not know how to respect ourselves.

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.

You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?

Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.

The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

Are we being good ancestors?

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man.

I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.

The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine.

Please, put aside all excuses and ask yourself, "What should I be doing?" Yes, you alone can make a difference. The question is, will you?

If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.

Don't make excuses. Make commitments and stick to them.