#accountable

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable. ↗

— Horace Mann

#also #call #evil #how #inevitable

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#cruel #folly #man #misery #nations

You know I think the president has to really focus on getting elected to a second term in 2012. And I need to focus on making sure I'm accountable to the people of Missouri. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#elected #focus #getting #i #i think

And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#anything #better #broadcasting #change #country

Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone. ↗

— John Oldham

#alone #conscience #god #lord #myself

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#alliance #appear #branches #close #different

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#actions #case #cause #either #evil

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#future #hold #more #must #officials

You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#authority #bottleneck #creates #develop #few

Our forefathers got it; they got it, man. They took godly principles and they put them into action, and they developed our Constitution - the land of freedom where each man is accountable and responsible for his actions. ↗

— Luke Scott

#action #actions #constitution #developed #each