Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [921-940] of 1002 Responsibility quotesResponsibility QuotesResponsibility Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.~ Mark Twain We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.~ Mark Twain Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.~ Mark Twain Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.~ Mark Twain Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -- the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.~ Mark Twain A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.~ Mark Twain It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.~ Mark Twain A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.~ Sir Alex Fraser Tytler No shade tree? Blame not the sun, but yourself.~ Unknown Be more aware of your responsibilities than of your rights.~ Unknown The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.~ John Updike Mind Your Business~ U. S. Treasury Congress may not abdicate or transfer to others its legitimate functions.~ U.S. Supreme Court Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.~ Paul Valéry Anyone who tells you that "It Can't Happen Here" is whistling past the graveyard of history. There is no 'house rule' that bars tyranny coming to America. History is replete with republics whose people grew complacent and descended into imperial butchery and chaos.~ Mike Vanderboegh A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.~ Bill Vaughan I support people having a gun in public full stop, not just in your home. We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government. It's not about duck hunting; it's about the ability of the individual. It's the same reason we have freedom of speech.~ Vince Vaughn Government cannot be your parent.~ Jesse Ventura The soul of our country needs to be awakened... When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders.~ Veterans Fast for Life It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.~ Voltaire Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print