#burdens

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#armaments #burdensome #came #enormous #governments

I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#allowed #am #burdens #equivalent #fair

What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#democracy #document #hours #intimidation #law

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#class #classes #crush #each #extreme

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#empowerment #flying #freedom #unburdening #weight

...people with nothing to declare carry the most. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#carry #life #nothing #struggles #life

But wishing our Kansas soldiers 'God speed' is not enough. We need to comfort, care for, and protect their families. And we should ease the financial burdens that these families often face. ↗

— Kathleen Sebelius

#care #comfort #ease #enough #face

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#carry #everybody #grief #their #them

You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there. ↗

— Brandon Lee

#choose #only #put #you

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#burdens #hard #hard work #ideas #same