Quotes About Responsibility

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.

But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.

The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.

For one to be free there must be at least two.

The Christian stands, not under the dictatorship of a legalistic 'you ought,' but in the magnetic field of Christian Freedom, under the empowering of the 'You may.'

Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal

If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.

If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.