The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.

I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren’t very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

The key is to vote because we need a vote to put the people in power that we want to represent us.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

Your life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

Be the chief but never the lord.

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.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man’s virtues the means of deceiving him.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

I do the dishes every night – other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of another.

I got my own back.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

I vote and I do jury duty.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

The first book I ever really read was Plato’s ‚Republic,‘ and then I had to go over that five times or something.

Some people say that the climate crisis is something that we will have created, but that is not true, because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is to blame.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

It’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.