Quotes about Responsibility
We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions.
— Ronald Reagan
The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the planet, the elderly lament that once beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish.
— Pope Francis
It's amazing to me the number of people who will volunteer to help at church but won't lift a finger to help at home!
— Joyce Meyer
It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.
— George Eliot
When it comes to the care of our common home, we are living at a critical moment of history.
— Pope Francis
A man builds a fine house and now he has a master and a task for life is to furnish watch show it and keep it in repair the rest of his life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge a taste for an elaborate home, fancy cars, and other luxuries.
— Gordon Hinckley
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
— Albert Einstein
Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
— William McKinley
The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.
— Ernest Hemingway