Quotes about Accountability
The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.
- Benjamin Disraeli
In a very real sense, the suffering of this world was created by man himself.
- Billy Graham
Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.
- David O. McKay
The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.
- DL Moody
The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.
- George Eliot
When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.
- George Washington
Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.
- Philip James Bailey
You entrust your money to banks, God entrusts His money to you. How would you feel if the bank took your money and used it to play the lottery or gamble with it? So, how does God feel?
- Tony Evans
Some day you will have to give an account for every penny you spent.
- Billy Graham
And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.
- Tony Campolo
Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can say, "if you want government money, you have to make this data public - you have to share it."
- Joe Biden