Quotes about Responsibility

Never delay a prompting. When you honor a prompting and then stand back a pace, you realize that the Lord gave you the prompting. It makes me feel good that the Lord even knows who I am and knows me well enough to know that if He has an errand to be run, and He prompts me to run the errand, the errand will get done.

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

I'm the only president you've got.

I don't want to be president, but I want to be free to decide whether or not I want to be president of this country.

Great presidents, and even those not so great, never complained about the hands they were dealt. Just the opposite. They assumed they were in the big chair to meet big challenges, no matter how difficult.

I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.

Everything I do, I do for my daughters.