M. J. Rose Quotes

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

You've got to take responsibility for your actions.

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

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

Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

There ought to be limits to freedom.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong.

There comes a time in the life of every public official when he must decide between right and regularity.

We have, all of us, our duties. Every action of our lives, and every word that we utter, will either conduce to or detract from the discharge of our duty.

Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not.

I was raised with a sense of duty, obedience and guilt.

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.

When you sign your name on the dotted line, it's more than just playing baseball. You have a responsibility to make good decisions and show people how things are supposed to be done.

I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world.

My original opinion still stands. I don't think he should have put it out.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention.

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

I've learned people are watching, so don't do nothing stupid.

I shall fulfill my contract, no more nor less.