Quotes about Responsibility
Forgiveness is not substitute for justice.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Consequences don't just go away. They aren't suddenly dissolved just because forgiveness has been desired or given.
— Tracie Peterson
Let the punishment match the offense.
— Cicero
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.
— Elizabeth Fry
We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.
— Francis de Sales
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
— Toni Morrison
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.
— George H. W. Bush
True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us.
— DA Carson
Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
— Martin Luther
America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.
— John Quincy Adams