Quotes about Responsibility

Do not trade your birthright as a mother for some bauble of passing value. Let your first interest be in your home. The baby you hold in your arms will grow quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days.

I remind mothers everywhere of the sanctity of your calling. No other can adequately take your place. No responsibility is greater, no obligation more binding than that you rear in love and peace and integrity those whom you have brought into the world.

Anger is the mother of a whole brood of evil actions.

Rock Creek is sacred and holy ground. How tremendous their heroism in the face of odds that are almost impossible to understand. . . in terms of self-sacrifice, in terms of courage, in terms of faith, in terms of facing up to adversity, there is no greater example in the history of this nation. . . We have a great inheritance. . . a tremendous responsibility to live up to it. God bless us to be faithful, to be true to that which meant so much to those who died here. . .

I hope that you mothers will realize that when all is said and done, you have no more compelling responsibility, nor any laden with greater rewards, than the nurture you give your children in an environment of security, peace, companionship, love, and motivation to grow and do well.

No humane being... will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow-man, without at last finding the other end of it about his own neck.

But when there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.