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.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

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.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

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

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.

I don’t want to spend money the club doesn’t have; I don’t want to hold a player that doesn’t want to stay.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

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.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

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

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.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

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.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It’s a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

Taxpayers have long memories, especially when it comes to how their hard-earned money is spent.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

What we will do is we’ll say, ‚Okay, you have your page, and if you’re not trying to organize harm against someone, or attacking someone, then you can put up that content on your page, even if people might disagree with it or find it offensive.‘ But that doesn’t mean that we have a responsibility to make it widely distributed in News Feed.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

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

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.

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.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character.

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

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.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

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.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

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.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

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

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

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Commitment is an act, not a word.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

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 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.

I’m a huge fan of R. Kelly’s. He’s a musical genius and probably the most prolific artist of the generation before mine.

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

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.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

Every President wants to do right.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

I like to always lead from the front and set an example for whoever is playing with me or around me. I like taking responsibilities. That is my natural thing.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.