Quotes about Accountability
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
— Edmund Burke
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
— George Eliot
My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.
— George Washington
Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise.
— George Washington
Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise ... his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
— Albert Schweitzer
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
— Calvin Coolidge
The buck stops here.
— Harry S. Truman
There is no such thing as concealment. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are all sorry when we are discovered. Then we are very sorry.It's not the question if we're sorry. The question is did we draw a lesson? The question is: what are we going to do now, when we're sorry?
— JM Coetzee
The question is not, are we sorry? The question is, what lesson have we learned? The question is what are we going to do now that we are sorry?
— JM Coetzee