responsibility Quotes

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.