Quotes About Responsibility

People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace?

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.

The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance.

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.

Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.

Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community.

When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

Eternal vigilance is only part of the price of freedom. The maturity to live with imperfections is another crucial part of the price of freedom.

What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

Obedience is the road to freedom.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and a willingness to act in its defense.

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.

The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.