Quotes about Accountability

I must bear the consequences as I deserve!

Dear me, dear me,' replied a testy voice, 'I am very sorry for it, but what am I to do? I can't build it up again. The chief magistrate of the city can't go and be a rebuilding of people's houses, my good sir. Stuff and nonsense!' 'But the chief magistrate of the city can prevent people's houses from having any need to be rebuilt, if the chief magistrate's a man, and not a dummy—can't he, my lord?' cried the old gentleman in a choleric manner.

If you bring the boy back with his head blown to bits by a musket, don't look to me to put it together again.

So runs the genealogy of many another sin: idleness is usually the grandfather of the crime, whatever the father might be.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking

In the end he [God] will allow us to become what we have chosen.

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

women and girls begin to bare themselves behind and in front, and there is nobody to punish and hold in check, and besides, God's word is mocked.

I do admit there have been times when I have made a statement that was incorrect.

If we keep on 'making statements' and not really doing the work, we are going to be in trouble.