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The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left.

People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.

But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

To sit back and say, 'Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,' is giving up.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.