Paul Ryan Quotes

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

When one has genuinely chosen a course for oneself it cannot be possible to hold another responsible for it.

A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything.

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

Freedom comes with a lot of responsibility. When you are by yourself, you have to develop a third eye.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

When you don't have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whatever you want, or you could take charge and be your own parent.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.

It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.

Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.

I am responsible for no one but myself.