Quotes about Responsibility
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
— CS Lewis
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
— James Madison
I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.
— Ronald Reagan
The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.
— Thomas Jefferson
If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.
— James Madison
Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems.
— Ronald Reagan
The true slogan of a true democracy is not 'Let the Government do it' but rather, 'let's do it ourselves'.... This is the spirit of a people dedicated to helping themselves and one another.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
. . . Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves.
— Ronald Reagan
Good government is no substitute for self-government.
— Mahatma Gandhi
To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.
— Samuel Johnson
It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.
— Barack Obama