I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

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.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Some of my colleagues argue that by further curtailing our Second Amendment rights, they can enhance public safety. Fine, the burden of proof is on them.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

To be is to do.

I’ve been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that’s kind of a religious belief. I mean, it’s at least a moral belief.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

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

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you’re covered and there’s not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn’t be admissible.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

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.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it’s a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it’s not! You don’t really take responsibility for your work.

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

In this digital age, it doesn’t really matter if you are in Canary Wharf or the Caribbean; there are opportunities waiting to be grasped by entrepreneurs.

Evil is whatever distracts.

Abortion is clearly wrong.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

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