Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you straight is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance.

The welfare of the people has always been the alibi of tyrants.

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Racial discrimination is not a permissible solution... that can only weaken the principle of equality embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Equal Protection Clause.

Never cross a man, not afraid to die.

As I walked out the door to my freedom I knew that, if I did not leave all the anger, hatred and resentment behind, I would remain a prisoner.

We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are—that is a fact.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.

In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.