"We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world." Mark Twain

"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime." John Philpot Curran

"We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people — the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world. . . . God has predestinated, [and] mankind expects, great things from [us]; and great things we feel in our souls." Herman Melville

"The price of greatness is responsibility." Winston Churchill

"We have a Statue of Liberty on the east coast of America.  Perhaps we should have a statue of responsibility on the west coast.  The two go hand-in-hand." Unknown