Quotes About Responsibility

When history calls, history calls.

It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?'

God in His providence hasn't called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name.

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in the history books.

It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.

The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history.

I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.

We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.

Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed it all.

History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?

Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.

I feel so blessed to have had the chance to do this job [ U.S. Solicitor General] in this moment in our history. It's been an incredible thing.

More than any other figure in our history [Tomas] Jefferson is responsible for the idea of American exceptionalism.

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.

Jesus spoke to those who had turned their backs on history. He spoke to those who had blatantly ignored sign after sign, servant after servant.

History and the generations to come will judge our leaders by the decisions they make in the coming weeks.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.-Thomas Jefferson

History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

If homes are going to survive, it will be because husbands and fathers again place their families at the highest level on their system of priorities.