#obligation

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#democratic government #escape #government #obligation #only

As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose? ↗

— John Trumbull

#breed #done #get #lest #lose

The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another. ↗

— Seth Low

#altogether #another #brotherhood #city #dependence

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future. ↗

— Alberto Moravia

#based #becomes #custodian #customs #each

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#future #ground #hierarchy #now #obligation

The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people. ↗

— Ron Paul

#bringing #constitutional #economic #liberty #moral

Every day President Bush and Congress refuse to fulfill their obligation to special ed is another day Wisconsin property taxpayers are stuck with the bill. It's unfair, irresponsible and must stop. ↗

— Jim Doyle

#another day #bill #bush #congress #day

Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#child #child support #divorced #likely #meet

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. ↗

— William Feather

#evade #his #man #manifest #must

We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#clear #completely #conditional #equip #forces