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

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Don’t say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

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.

Government’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

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

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‚don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.‘

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

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

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

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

International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

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.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

The community – more than two billion people use our products, and we get that, with that, a lot of people are using that for a lot of good, but we also have a responsibility to mitigate the darker things that people are gonna try to do.

When it comes to the qualifications that we should demand of our president, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

Many shoulder heavy burdens of righteous responsibility which, on occasion, seem so difficult to bear. I have heard those challenges termed impossible.