Quotes about Accountability
When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
— Oscar Wilde
We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster.
— Theodore Roosevelt
A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.
— Wendell Berry
A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.
— CS Lewis
Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.
— Edmund Burke
Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.
— Cicero
Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in question--to be defended from the beginning to the end.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin
— Charles Hodge
Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how
— Elbert Hubbard
Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices.
— AW Tozer