Quotes About Responsibility

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular gift in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.

Globalisation makes it clear that social responsibility is required not only of governments, but of companies and individuals. All sources must interact in order to reach the MDGs.

Government is instituted for those who live under it.

It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.

It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing.

Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.

I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.

There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.

No Taxes. Let's just tip the government 15% if they do a good job.

We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.

Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult.

The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.

Question Period is not part of the legislative process,and has nothing to do with it. It is a means of monitoring the Executive that the Government cannot evade.

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.