Quotes about Responsibility
Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.
— Margaret Mead
You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.
— Michael Novak
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
— Edmund Burke
Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.
— Herbert Hoover
The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.
— John Adams
It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders.
— Billy Graham
We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.
— Albert Schweitzer
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
— John Updike
Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.
— Bill Gates
I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
— Margaret Mead
It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.
— Will Rogers