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"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself."	Alexander Hamilton
"Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities."	Napolean Hill
"Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults."	Eric Hoffer
"Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar."	J(ohn) Edgar Hoover
"Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them."	Elbert Hubbard
"At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted."	Eric Idle
"The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible; and the same remedy will make us so."	Thomas Jefferson
"No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility."	Gerald W. Johnson
"The Negro says, 'Now.' Others say, 'Never.' The voice of responsible Americans ... says, 'Together.' There is no other way."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"We must exchange the philosophy of excuse--what I am is beyond my control--for the philosophy of responsibility."	Barbara Charline Jordan
"The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech."	Anthony M. Kennedy
"To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility-I welcome it."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"When at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each one of us-recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state-our success or failure, in whatever office we may hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions-were we truly men of courage ... were we truly men of judgment ... were we truly men of integrity ... were we truly men of dedication?"	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe."	Christine Lane
"The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities."	Ursula K. LeGuin
"Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsiblity and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values."	Helen Merrell Lynd
"We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities."	Bill Maher
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Alexander Hamilton	Ambrose Bierce	Anthony M. Kennedy
Antonio Gramsci	Arbie M. Dale	Author Unknown
Barbara Charline Jordan	Barber B. Conable, Jr	Bill Maher
Booker T. Washington	Charles Mathias, Jr.	Christine Lane
Dietrich Bonhoeffer	Donald Robert Perry Marquis	Douglas Noel Adams
Elbert Hubbard	Eric Hoffer	Eric Idle
Eugenio Montale	Francisco "El Caudillo" Franco	Frank H. Crane
Galileo Galilei	George Burns	Georges Duhamel
George Gordon Byron	Gerald W. Johnson	Giosue Borsi
Harlan Ellison	Helen Merrell Lynd	Hillary Rodham Clinton
James Agee	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
Joan Didion	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John L. Casteel
J(ohn) Edgar Hoover	Kahlil Gibran	Lawrence Downs
Louis	Louis K. Anspacher	Lyndon Baines Johnson
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes	Marian Wright Edelman	Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.
Mark McGee	Michael Korda	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Napolean Hill	Oliver L. North	Oscar Wilde
Paxton Blair	Peter F(erdinand) Drucker	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard David Bach	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Srully D. Blotnick
Stanley Milgram	Stephen Crane	Thomas Jefferson
Ursula K. LeGuin	William Gordon	William John Bennett