#expense

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations. ↗

— James Madison

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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense. ↗

— James Madison

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Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term. ↗

— J. Irwin Miller

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Every American knows there are government expenses that are absolutely not necessary. I disagree with the very idea that our government is spending $2.4 trillion in the most efficient manner. ↗

— Jeff Miller

#absolutely not #american #disagree #efficient #every

I've always considered myself a physical person. I don't call myself a farm girl, but I did spend a lot of years shoveling manure and throwing hay, because I worked to pay most of my riding expenses. ↗

— Eleanor Mondale

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Almost anything makes me laugh, especially jokes at my own expense. And I will never, ever admit to being ticklish anywhere. ↗

— Judd Nelson

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Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#any #best #defense #does #duty

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue. ↗

— Quintilian

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A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much. ↗

— Quintilian

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The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live. ↗

— Bob Riley

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