Quotes About Responsibility

Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.

Have the government get out of the way.

We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers.

Change is not in the hands of government, not in the hands of a leader or guru, and not in the hands of the powerful or wealthy. It is in our hands: the hands of each and every one of us.

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.

Enforcement isn't about big government or small government. It's about whether government works and who it works for.

That government is best which governs the least because its people discipline themselves.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

But we don't have to react. That's what I'm saying. A police force, like a government, should be above that. Just because we're provoked doesn't mean we have to act. -- Still Life

Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

Though the people support the government the government should not support the people.

Every nation has the government that it deserves.

It seems to me that government is like a pump and what it pumps up is just what we are a fair sample of the intellect the ethics and the morals of the people no better no worse.

Themistocles said "The Athenians govern the Greeks I govern the Athenians you my wife govern me your son governs you."

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?

Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.

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

People's trust in their public institutions depends on their government getting results.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.