2,642 Quotes About Responsibility

Democracy maintains that government is established for the benefit of the individual, and is charged with the responsibility of protecting the individual, and is charged with the responsibility of protecting the rights of the individual and his freedom in the exercise of his abilities. Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.

What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies were used lately were not men of sense nor of principle; in a high moral sense they were not men at all.

I would remind my countrymen, that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. No matter how valuable law may be to protect your property, even to keep soul and body together, if it do not keep you and humanity together.

The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.

I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society.

I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.

A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.

I'm saying that you can create success for yourself but also understand that you have a responsibility to others.

I don't live a very posh life. There are no drivers waiting or people doing everything for me. I pretty much live like a normal person. . . . It's not good to have a life without responsibilities, you know ?.