Quotes About Responsibility

Freedom costs you a great deal.

Freedom is never free.

Ultimately, there is the freedom to take the consequences.

Those who choose to be servants know the most about being free.

So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.

Freedom is the recognition of contingency.

Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Freedom does not mean license.

We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.

Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing.

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

Freedom of speech means nothing to a people who are too weak in their convictions to speak out against the evil that is eating at the heart of the nation like a cancer.

Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out.

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.

The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.

Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society.

Wild animals are not meant to be owned, any more than human beings are. Nobody has the right to pass a cougar or a gorilla on from hand to hand.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy