Quotes About Responsibility

Some of the mission groups that have been responsible for our education have not been part of the government. In fact, they acted contrary to what the government had planned to do.

I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.

Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other people's money, other people's safety, other people's future.

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

When any civil government steps outside the mandate authorized by God Almighty, then that government does not have any further claim over its citizens.

Either we have the government forcing us and telling us what we have to do, where we have to do it and how much we have to pay for it or we put ourselves in charge - we as consumers, as patients.

It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.

Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.

The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality.

How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world].

Comfort the weak and feel the poor. What on earth do we need government for?

Everything goes wrong for a government which is going wrong

They say it's the responsibility of the media to look at government - especially the President - with a microscope. I don't argue with that, but when they use a proctoscope, it's going too far.

The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in the world aren't worth a dime.

Each and every one of us has a vital part to play in building the kind of world in which government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.

In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people.

The Bible says that governments can do things that I'm not supposed to do as an individual. God has not put the law in my hands. He's put the law in the government's hands.

It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government.

The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.

I am much more optimistic about consumer-driven change than I am governmental change. Anything can happen in government, but I do think we consumers can drive true change.

Why is it is claimed that if people won't or can't take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them?

People don't start wars, governments do.

Government is not the answer to the problem - it IS the problem.