Quotes About Responsibility

The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.

In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President never answers directly to Congress.

The government cannot do everything all at once. It can't wave a magic wand and meet everyone's demands simultaneously.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.

Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government?

An individual citizen cannot protect himself from the powers of large corporations or external governments. It is the responsibility of the government to protect its citizens.

It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

The federal government is our servant, not our master.

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government.

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.

The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted.

We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.

People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.

No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.

People are always saying,'They'll take care of it. The government'll--Don't worry, they'll--' 'They' who? It starts with us. It's us. Or else it'll never be done...

You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state.

My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.

There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.