Freedom is not an unlimited license, an unlimited choice, or an unlimited opportunity. Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come.

If freedom, democracy, and the rights of man are to be preserved through the ages, free men and women must accept the responsibilities that go with their freedoms.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

With great power, there must also come, great responsibility

man being condemned to be free carries the weight of the whole world on his shoulders; he is responsible for the world and for himself as a way of being.

La libertad supone responsabilidad.
Por eso la mayor parte de los hombres la temen tanto.

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.

Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.

Not that freedom ensured happiness. Indeed, to be free was to live in absence. Of responsibilities, of loyalties, of the pressures that expectation imposed

Freedom itself demands discomfort.