Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill.

-Aldington, Richard pseudonym of  Edward Godfree
The Colonel's Daughter, pt.1, ch.6.

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.

-Algren, Nelson
  Preface to reprint of Chicago: City On The Make (first published1951).

The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of theterm.Theyare engines of propaganda for the constantly-changing policies, desires, personal wishes, and personal likes and dislikes of two men† What the proprietorship of those papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibilityöthe prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

-Baldwin (of Bewdley), Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl
  Speech,18 Mar. Rudyard Kipling, Baldwin's cousin, is alleged to be the original author of this famous phrase. Harold Macmillan claimed that the Duke of Devonshire (his father-in- law) responded 'Good God, that's done it, he's lost us the tarts.'

Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

-Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett
  The Cynic's Word Book. Retitled  The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

An artist's first responsibility is to himself.

-Davis, Miles Dewey, III
Ebony,  Jan.

A wrong decision can make me very miserable.But I have trust in God. If you have this trust you don't have to worry, as you don't have the sole responsibility.

-Denning, Alfred Thompson, Lord
  Speech on his retirement.

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility, and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish, without the help and support of the woman I love.

-Edward VIII
  Radio broadcast to the nation,11 Dec, following his abdication to marry Wallis Simpson.

The Frenchhad a moremartial air thanthe English.There seemed to be a species of military instinct in all classes. No young man appeared to have finished his education till after a bloody campaign† They were at this singular period, without the least exaggeration, a century behind us in notions of legal and moral responsibility.

-Haydon, Benjamin Robert
Autobiography (published1847).

   It was not clear to me that our course was unjustified. Even now I am not sure how historians will allocate the responsibility for the war.

-Hirohito
  Remark to General Mac Arthur, quoted in Edward Behr Hirohito (1989), introduction.

Equality of opportunity does not mean equality of responsibility.

-Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)
   Address at Vanderbilt University,19 May.

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibilityat the other.

-Knox, Ronald Arbuthnot
His definition of a baby.  Attributed.

   Sleep is death without the responsibility.

-Lebowitz, Fran(ces Ann)
  Metropolitan Life,'Why I Love Sleep'.

   Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Liberty and Equality'.