3 Edmund Burke Quotes on Responsibility

Edmund Burke quotes on responsibility

23. Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.

56. Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon his watch, as well as he that goes over to the enemy.

99. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.