Quotes About Responsibility

Between writing, traveling, speaking, preaching, and doing my best to be a good husband to my wife and my three kids, that's about as much as one man or at least this man can do.

When you're put in a position where you're having to decide, Is this a good decision? Is this the right decision for everybody involved? - it makes me feel a little unsteady, unsure.

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.

Good and Bad are like God and Devil. It's up to you, who do you want to summon.

Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.

Those who claim to be on the side of good yet do nothing to fight evil are on the side of evil.

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

Either you will control your government, or government will control you.

We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation.

No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person.

The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.

No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.

What are we going to do if citizens are disarmed, and the government doesn't obey its own laws?

In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.

Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.

It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.