The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

We came into a broken world. And we’re the cleanup crew.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

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.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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.

Every President wants to do right.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one’s conversion, worthiness, and preparation.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

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

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

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

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

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

The buck stops here!

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

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.

Adults are obsolete children.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.

Basketball is booming, and it’s not just an Under Armour standpoint: it’s about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else’s affairs.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you’ve got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I’m not sure any country, either the United States or I don’t hear of anyone else, who’s willing to take on that responsibility.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

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.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

I have been a youngster and I know speeches are boring.