Ronald Reagan Quotes

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

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 don't think anybody can be held accountable or responsible for anyone's behaviors expect the individual. This goes beyond that particular situation.

No one is responsible under liberalism.

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.

Freedom always carries a burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves.

There is no one that can share your responsibility. It it is your responsibility you must carry it on and you must be responsible for your actions. At the end of the day we all are being challenged, sooner or later, by our destiny. And it's up to us to make all the difference in this life. If not you, who else?

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

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.

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

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

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

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

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.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

I'm really only responsible for my own actions.

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves that necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

Man must assume responsibility for the direction of his life and destiny.

Freedom comes with responsibility.

I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom