I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

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

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

Morality is contraband in war.

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

Commitment is an act, not a word.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

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

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

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 generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

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.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it’s just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

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

What is permissible is not always honorable.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.

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

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

There are people in the world who aren’t necessarily Christians, but they’re just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

I like gifts. I like to give them and I like to get them.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

The buck stops here!

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?

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

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.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.