Quotes about Responsibility
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
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