Responsibility is the price of greatness

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves

There are two freedoms The false, where man is free to do what he likes The true, where man is free to do what he ought

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future

When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet

Only where we ourselves are responsible for our own interests and are free to sacrifice them has our decision moral value. We are neither entitled to be unselfish at someone else's expense nor is there any merit in being unselfish if we have no choice. The members of a society who in all respects are made to do the good thing have no title to praise

Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the other undermining the essential concept of human responsibility

Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery