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Responsibility Quotes by John F. Kennedy
- Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities.
- Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.
- The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.
- I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers.. I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for as a…
- We in this country, in this generation, areby destiny rather than choicethe watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may…
- And with privilege goes responsibility.
- The success of this Government, and thus the success of our Nation, depends in the last analysis upon the quality.of our career services. The legislation…
- Harry Truman once said, 'There are 14 or 15 million Americans who have the resources to have representatives in Washington to protect their interests, and…
- I ask particularly that those of you who are now in school will prepare yourselves to bear the burden of leadership over the next 40…
- There will always be dissident voices heard in the land, expressing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side and…
- The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are…
- Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a free and peaceful…
- 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…
- Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
- Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
- In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger.…
- And when at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each of us, recording whether in our brief span of…
- For in a democracy, every citizen, regardless of his interest in politics, "hold office"; every one of us is in a position of responsibility; and,…
More Responsibility Quotes
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government. — Joe Arpaio
- It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there… — David Attenborough
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its… — Richard Bach
- You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks. — Michelle Bachelet
- I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible. — Kevin Bacon
- An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual. — Robert Baden-Powell
- The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond. — Robert Baden-Powell
- Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. — James A. Baldwin
- A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire.… — Christian Bale
- Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face… — William Barclay