Quotes About Responsibility

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

I can never be anything else but an American, and I must think of the United States first, and when I think of the United States first in an arrangement like this I am thinking of what is best for the world, for if the United States fails the best hopes of mankind fail with it.

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

The time will come when Winter will ask you what you were doing all Summer.

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

What is the good of having a nice house without a decent planet to put it on?

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms, and did my duty faithfully, though I never received one cent for it.

How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

Corporations have no souls, but they can love each other.

It is by constant and conscientious attention to daily duties that thoroughness and conscientiousness and honorableness are imbedded in our beings.

and is developed by exercise. Active use of the power entrusted to us is one of the chief means which God employs for producing the Christian graces.

What have you done?

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough;I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

Your religion...serves you only for an excuse for your faults, but is no incentive to your virtue.

a good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself, which the neglect of legislators hath forgotten to supply.

To whom nothing is given, of him can nothing be required.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose

Don't find fault. Find remedy. Anyone can complain.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.