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