Quotes About Responsibility

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

One of my life goals is to be a best man. It's a baller position. You get drunk, you make speeches, and you make love to the prettiest bridesmaid, usually standing from behind.

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

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.

Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.

Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.

For no one loves the bearer of bad tidings.

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).

I will tell the stork-man.

The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.

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.

The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.

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

Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.

They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here.

As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does only and wholly what he must do.

Now is the time for all good men to come to.

Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech.

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.