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The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.

The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.

Fulton J. Sheen
Responsibility, Taxation, Want

Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.

Fulton J. Sheen
Responsibility, Self, Law

To fall in love means to fall into something... And that something is responsibility.

Fulton J. Sheen
Falling In Love, Mean, Responsibility
Fulton J. Sheen (2010). “The World's First Love”, p.22, Ignatius Press

A democracy flirts with the danger of becoming a slave in direct ratio to the numbers of its citizens who work, but do not own / or who own, but do not work; or who distribute, as politicians do, but do not produce. The danger of the "slave state" disappears in ratio to the numbers of people who own property and admit its attendant responsibilities under God. They can call their souls their own because they own and administer something other than their souls. Thus they are free.

Fulton J. Sheen
Wisdom, Responsibility, Flirting

The denial of the right of ownership to a man is a denial of his basic freedom: freedom without property is always incomplete. To be "secured" - but with no accompanying responsibility - is to be the slave of whatever group provides the security.

Fulton J. Sheen
Wisdom, Responsibility, Men

The Western world generally has lost the concept of man as a creature made to the image and likeness of God, and reduced him either to a component part of the universe, to an economic animal or to a "physiological bag filled with psychological libido." Once man became materialized and atomized in Western thinking, it was only natural for a totalitarianism to arise to gather up the fragments into a new totality and substitute the collective man for the individual man who was isolated from all social responsibilities.

Fulton J. Sheen
Wisdom, Responsibility, Men

Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.

Fulton J. Sheen
Wisdom, Fun, Responsibility
"Those Mysterious Priests". Book by Fulton J. Sheen, p. 66, 1974.

Monopolistic capitalism is to blame for this; it sunders the right to own property from responsibility that owning property involves. Those who own only a few stocks have no practical control of any industry. They vote by postcard proxy, but they have rarely even seen "their" company. The two elements which ought to be inextricably joined in any true conception of private property - ownership and responsibility - are separated. Those who own do not manage; those who manage; those who manage and work do not control or own.

Fulton J. Sheen
Wisdom, Responsibility, Two

Possession properly has two faces, two aspects: we all have a right to private property, but this is accompanied by our responsibility for its righteous use. These two things (which should be inseparable) are frequently divided today. Everyone admits that the farmer who own a horse is obligated to feed and care for it, but in the case of stocks and bonds, we often forget that the same principle should prevail.

Fulton J. Sheen
Wisdom, Horse, Responsibility

Faced with such insecurity, labor unions seek a solution in demands for higher wages, shorter hours, pensions, and such things. But this approach takes monopolistic capitalism for granted, and accepts the unnatural division between property and responsibility as permanent. A much more radical solution is apt to come, and this may take either of two forms.

Fulton J. Sheen
Wisdom, Responsibility, Two

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