A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

It just seems that you were talking positively about McDonald’s, that they are… attempting this healthy lifestyle, and yet when we’re talking right now… it seems that you’re saying they need to make more responsibility.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Too many people say to their brokers, I can’t deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That’s the worst attitude you can have.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.