responsibility Quotes

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.