Quotes About Responsibility

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.

Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal.

It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens.

A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.

The true slogan of a true democracy is not 'Let the Government do it' but rather, 'let's do it ourselves'.... This is the spirit of a people dedicated to helping themselves and one another.

The people of Zimbabwe have a responsibility to ensure that the government that they elected behaves properly.

In adopting the republican form of government, I not only took it as a man does his wife, for better, for worse, but, what few men do with their wives, I took it knowing all its bad qualities.

Government exists only for the good of the governed.

Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.

American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for activities of the American Communists.

The whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments.

Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.

What I can't understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government.

Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.

. . . Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves.

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

A true patriot does not confuse government with country. A patriot's loyalty is to his country, and loyalty to country requires holding government accountable.

I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government.