Quotes About Responsibility

The people need a master only as long as they have no understanding of their own. The more it acquires understanding, the more the government is bound to change its methods and to disappear. The most noble end of government is to become dispensable, so that everyone must govern himself.

Promises and pie-crusts are made to be broken.

If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.

There is no greater guilt than the unneccessary war.

Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.

I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.

when men know not what to do , they ought not to do they know not what

Be it remembered, that liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we have not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.

People are more slothful than timid. Their greatest fear is the heavy burden that uncompromising honesty and nakedness of speech and action would lay on them.

Friendship with children creates obedient people in society.

Parents who have no time to build friendships with their children, have already ended up exposing them to many sexual practices.

If you don't run your own life, someone else will

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

Arlo declares he wasn't destined to be a hero. "I wasn't chosen," he said. "I chose.

Simon curled up by Aunt Dot's chair, but he kept an eye on me in case any sudden disciplinary action should be necessary.

The basic test of freedom is not in what we are free to do but rather in what we are free not to do!

Do other people, remembering their parents, feel, as I do, a sense of having inadvertently done a small though significant, irreversible wrong?

his father was still living, and the living require more thought.

if you're prepared to eat them, you must be prepared to murder them.

Guilt is the only affect I know of that does not diminish with time. Nor does the guilty conscience have any sense of priority or right proportion.

2. Lake Erie The wisdom to recognize and halt follows the know-how to pollute past rescue.