Quotes about Responsibility

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

I can do one of two things. I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice Roosevelt. (His 19-year-old daughter.) I cannot possibly do both.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Credit should go with the performance of duty, and not with what is very often the accident of glory.

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The second best thing is the wrong thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.