Adoniram Judson Quotes

The Church emphasis responsibility more than rights.

I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

All power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise.

Power always brings with it responsibility.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Anybody from my soil is my responsibility.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.

I do not mean that you could continue to do this with propriety or even with safety; I merely assert that the power is, in point of fact, in your hands. And for such a power, what a responsibility to God and man!

I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

When moral principles, rather than persons, are candidates for power, to vote is to perform a moral duty, and not to vote is to neglect a duty

As Americans, it is up to all of us to be well informed and thoughtful, to help our country make the right decisions in this time or testing.

Our rulers do wrong from choice and right from necessity.

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

Politicians may do as they please, so long as they violate no rule of right, no principle of justice, no law of God; but in no world, in no order, or condition, have men the right to do wrong.

Responsibility is the product of definite social arrangements.