Quotes about Responsibility

I will criticize individuals when they deserve criticism, but I will not condemn entire populations. We have seen where that leads.

You are not a prisoner of your past; you are the architect of your future.

We can do our best to change people, to summon them to be whom they are capable of being, but ultimately they only people we will always have the power to change will be ourselves.

When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.

The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

The President may have a great many powers given to him by the Constitution and may have certain powers under certain laws which are given to him by the Congress of the United States; but the principal power that the President had is to bring people in and try to persuade them to do what they ought to do without persuasion.

Your talent is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God.

We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.

We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves.