At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

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

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

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

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

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

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I’m going to Viet Nam’s aid!

I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog, but I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

If I’d found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I’d have killed myself.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It’s self-defense. It’s patriotism.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

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.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.

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

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

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?

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

I carry the flag of Ireland all the time. I want to represent my country.

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

I’m not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

Be the chief but never the lord.