Quotes About Responsibility

Those accept an obligation lightly who feel lightly about letting it drop.

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.

A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.

I represent what I think is a traditional Republican... a limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, individual freedom and liberty.

Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

All go free when multitudes offend.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?

We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.

Wrong people are wrong because they use their freedom to deny it to others.

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility.

This country (United States) has too many freedoms.

Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.

To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to.

I have long been a supporter of a free and independent press and I always will be. But with freedom comes responsibility.

For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.

To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. -Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere

Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority.

Do we not find freedom along the guiding lines of discipline?

As politicians we have to make very difficult decisions and one...is when freedom of speech actually insults public safety.