Quotes about Responsibility
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
— Thomas Jefferson
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
— Thomas Jefferson
The government you elect is the government you deserve.
— Thomas Jefferson
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.
— Thomas Jefferson
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
— Thomas Jefferson
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice will not sleep forever.
— Thomas Jefferson
A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character
— Thomas Jefferson
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
— Thomas Jefferson
The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government.
— Thomas Jefferson
We have the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is the duty of every American citizen to take part in a vigorous debate on the issues of the day.
— Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
— Thomas Jefferson