Quotes About Responsibility

It is the duty of those who claim to rule over others not to provoke them beyond the necessity of the case, nor to leave stings in their minds which must long rankle even when the appearance of tranquillity is restored.

The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations, which may be soon turned into complaints.

Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor.

The only thing for evil to triumph in the world is for good men not to act.

I know there is an order that keeps things fast in their place: it is made to us, and we are made to it. Why not ask another wife, other children, another body, another mind?

The restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are to be reckoned among their rights.

There is no qualification for government, but virtue and wisdom, whether actual or presumptive. . . . Every thing ought to be open; but not indifferently to every man.

Evil prevails if good people say nothing. -

No government could stand a moment, if it could be blown down with anything so loose and indefinite as an opinion of misconduct.

It only needs a good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.

The true lawgiver ought to have an heart full of sensibility. He ought to love and respect his kind, and to fear himself.

The restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are both to be reckoned among their rights.

There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom, actual or presumptive.

timid piety, which utterly disqualifies for government;

lie together in one short sentence: namely, that we have acquired a right 1. To choose our own governors. 2. To cashier them for misconduct. 3. To frame a government for ourselves. This new, and hitherto unheard-of bill of rights

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797) Irish orator, philosopher, & politician

All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

The artistic temperament is too often only an alibi for lack of responsibility....

Taking responsibility means you don't blame anyone else for your difficulties. It also means that you don't blame yourself.

Just because we cannot stop all the large leaks, that is no reason why we should open up all the little ones." T. Roosevelt

The Constitution was made for the people and not the people for the Constitution.

As Grover Cleveland remarked, "When quarreling parties are both in the wrong, and are assailed with blame Ã¢â'¬Â¦ they will do strange things to save their faces.

An autocrat's a ruler that does what th' people wants an' takes th' blame f'r it.

T]he one plain duty of every man is to face the future as he faces the present, regardless of what it may have in store for him, turning toward the light as he sees the light, to play his part manfully, as a man among men.