Responsibility

 

·Sunday, May 17, 2020 
·Reading time: 2 minutes
 
“Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation when he is in error.”
--Andrew Jackson
 
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today”
--Abraham Lincoln
 
“Power always brings with it great responsibility.”
--Theodore Roosevelt
 
“The buck stops here.”
--Harry S. Truman
 
“The essence of leadership is giving credit for all the good things to your subordinates and taking the blame for all the bad things on yourself.”
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
 
“Each individual is responsible for his own actions.”
--Ronald Reagan
 
“Now what should happen when you make a mistake is this: You take your knocks, you learn your lessons, and then you move on. That’s the healthiest way to deal with a problem. You know, by the time you reach my age you’ve made plenty of mistakes. And if you’ve lived your life properly, so you learn. You put things in perspective. You pull your energies together. You change. You go forward.”
--Ronald Reagan
 
“Being responsible is an enormous privilege. It’s what marks anyone a fully grown human.”
--Barack H. Obama
 
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
--Winston Churchill
 
“It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s actions.”
--The Mahatma Ghandi
 
“I take responsibility for nothing.”
--Donald J. Trump
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  Robert Humphreys "No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach." Donald Trump
  "I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races". - Abraham Lincoln. The list is endless Alan and they all say boneheaded things....
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  Alan Petrillo Robert Humphreys : This one was specifically about responsibility. Yes, I know all of them have said both good things and bad things. I am aware that Lincoln was no friend to black people. I am also aware that Trump has said inspiring things as long as someone else has written them for him and he has stuck to the script. He has also said, in public and on the record, that he takes credit for everything good that happens, and no responsibility for anything bad that happens. And his followers are more than happy to let him get away with it.
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  Robert Humphreys Yeah. Looking at things objectively it really has all the familiar symptoms of a parallel universe in which people live in terms of information. We have some digging out to do as these are record nasty numbers. I don’t think Biden can handle the recovery. What a pickle. Not so much a follower just being pragmatic.