Quotes About Responsibility

I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened.

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he'll eat you last.

Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.

We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.

The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

The essence of good government is trust.

I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name.

the government can do nothing for you. But you can do everything for yourselves

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

To the people who are upset about their hard-earned tax money going to things they don't like: welcome to the f*cking club. Reimburse me for the Iraq war and oil subsidies, and diaphragms are on me!

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

The only thing I believe is individual responsibility doesn't mean the government is the answer to ever fear and every problem every individual has. We are the masters of our own destiny.

Our Jewish friends are no more responsible for the actions of Israel or the Netanyahu government than our Muslim friends are for those of various self-styled Islamic states or organisations.

Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.