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Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.
Sep 16, 2025
Love can only exist where freedom and responsibility are operating.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Genius of AND. Embrace both extremes on a number of dimensions at the same time. Instead of choosing a OR B, figure out how to have A AND B-purpose AND profit, continuity AND change, freedom AND responsibility, etc.
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
We cannot learn freedom and responsibility within the confines of our own species. We cannot understand life and death and what they are for in exclusively human terms. Without that which is wild, the world becomes a cell block.
Courage is required not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.
Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
Anxiety is the dizziness we experience when we recognize we hold the freedom and responsibility for our life choices. More than anyone, alcoholics have a very clear sense of this dizziness, especially when we were coming to realize our own powerlessness over alcohol and that we could act differently.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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