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Quotes About Responsibility

Man's most sacred privilege is freedom of will, the ability to obey or disobey his Maker.
~ Joseph Hertz
The constitution expects every man to do his duty; and when he fails the law urges him; or should he do too much; the same master rebukes him.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
Homo-voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.
~ George Weigel
You shouldn't blame others for the conditions you endure; we each have the freedom to follow which path we desire in life.
~ Steven Redhead
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
...freedom only gives you something to be sorry for.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Anxiety is the price tag on human freedom
~ Louis Menand
Liberty is freedom constrained only by our responsibility to respect the equal rights of others.
~ Dave Champion
Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, you can't send the government to steal for you.
~ Ron Paul
Liberty was paid for by past sacrifices and given to us as a present gift.
~ Orrin Woodward
Angelo was a grown man, and here was one thing he was quite free to decide for himself, and yet he was ready to let others make up his mind for him...that could only be stupidity.
~ Anne Holm, I Am David
It's freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences and/or ridicule.
~ A.E. Samaan
The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.
~ Ted Cruz
If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college.
~ John W. Gardner
If you shatter the fish bowl so that everything is possible you don't have freedom you have paralysis. Everybody needs a fishbowl.
~ Barry Schwartz
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
~ Lord Acton
Every generation has to protect every one of their rights, whether that's freedom of the press, freedom of speech, or freedom of faith. You have to remain diligent.
~ James Lankford
I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.
~ Zachary Taylor
Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
~ Timothy Keller
Friendship is a full-time job.
~ Bill Russell
Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
~ Brendan Behan
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.
~ Alphonse Karr