Quotes about Responsibility
The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves — in their separate, and individual capacities.
— Abraham Lincoln
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
— Abraham Lincoln
I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.
— Abraham Lincoln
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth
— Abraham Lincoln
Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.
— Abraham Lincoln
If you want to test a man's character, give him power.
— Abraham Lincoln
This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
— Abraham Lincoln
If I do good, I feel good...If I do bad, I feel bad
— Abraham Lincoln
I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
— Abraham Lincoln
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
— Abraham Lincoln
let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the charter of his own and his children's liberty.
— Abraham Lincoln
The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people
— Abraham Lincoln