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"Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations."
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"Having a deep sense of understanding is a huge burden for a mind that can't directly influence things."

"OFSTED has made large cuts in the paperwork which schools are asked to provide and further steps to reduce the bureaucratic burden will be introduced in September."

"Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way."

"All communities have a right to clean water. The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to carry the burden of the clean up cost simply because they live downstream."

"I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden."

"The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden."
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"The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science."

"Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions."

"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."

"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both."

"Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."

"War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason."

"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."

"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."

"What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."

"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
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