Quotes about Accountability

So runs the genealogy of many another sin: idleness is usually the grandfather of the crime, whatever the father might be.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking

In the end he [God] will allow us to become what we have chosen.

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

women and girls begin to bare themselves behind and in front, and there is nobody to punish and hold in check, and besides, God's word is mocked.

I think that the press has a duty and an obligation to report on local government, state government, federal government - to be aggressive, to do its job. And its job is to report on whatever it's covering.

I do admit there have been times when I have made a statement that was incorrect.

If we keep on 'making statements' and not really doing the work, we are going to be in trouble.

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society