Quotes about Responsibility
Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.
- Theodore Roosevelt
My liberty depends on you being free, too.
- Barack Obama
Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.
- Erwin McManus
To the patriots I say this: Take that long eternal look. Stand up for freedom, no matter what the cost. Stand up and be counted. It can help to save your soul-and maybe your country.
- Ezra Taft Benson
It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.
- Henry David Thoreau
Because we are free, we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere.
- Jimmy Carter
Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
- Timothy Keller
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
- Thomas Jefferson
He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.
- Anonymous
If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.
- Will Rogers
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
- Barack Obama
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
- Jack Kerouac