Quotes about Responsibility
The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.
— Ronald Reagan
Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
— George Washington
It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.
— George Washington
I will raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against this Communistic idea that the Government will take care of us all, and everything belongs to the government. It is wrong!
— David O. McKay
When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.
— Tony Campolo
Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.
— Winston Churchill
The Bible says that governments can do things that I'm not supposed to do as an individual. God has not put the law in my hands. He's put the law in the government's hands.
— Rick Warren
Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.
— Ronald Reagan
I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality
— Mahatma Gandhi
While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.
— Abraham Lincoln
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.
— Theodore Roosevelt