Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

A leader's greatness is found in bringing out greatness in others.

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.

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.

We are all one family in the world. Building a community that empowers everyone to attain their full potential through each of us respecting each other's dignity, rights and responsibilities makes thee world a better place to live.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

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

I never encounter anything except my responsibility.

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.

The resources, advantages, and the powers of the American people are very great, and they have, consequently, succeed to equally great responsibilities.

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.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not to waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.