Quotes about Responsibility

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don't do for us.

Each and every thing I say yes to sets the pace of my life.

The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.

By virtue of being created by God, the world knows how to live and is under obligation to live that way, but it has declined. It has thus "profaned" the earth, made it something God no longer wishes to have anything to do with, something God could not continue to have anything to do with without compromising who he is.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.

The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises—it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nations greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. [Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.