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

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

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

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

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.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

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.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

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

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

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

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

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.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

Every President wants to do right.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

Respect the burden.

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

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

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

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

War settles nothing.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.