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“Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection."”

Firsts Country Asks Interest Community Views Class Rights Produce Duty Protect Taxes Advantage Burden Protection Soil Labour Allowing Imports Plunder Second Place

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“When people are too comfortable, it is not possible to restrain them within the bounds of their duty? They may be compared to mules who, being accustomed to burdens, are spoilt by rest rather than labour.”

People May Duty Comfortable Bounds Burden Labour Accustomed Mules Spoilt

Author:Cardinal Richelieu

“Modern man is weighed down more by the burden of responsibility than by the burden of sin. We think him more a savior who shoulders our responsibilities than him who shoulders our sins. If instead of making decisions we have but to obey and do our duty, we feel it as a sort of salvation.”

Ifs Thinking Men Feels Sin Decision Responsibility Modern Duty Salvation Burden Shoulders Savior Making Decisions Modern Man Burden Of Responsibility

Author:Eric Hoffer

“God grant that as our horizon of duty is widened, our minds may widen with it; that as our burden is increased, our shoulders may be strengthened to bear it. God grant to us that spirit of wisdom and understanding, uprightness, and godly fear, without which, even in greatest things there is nothing; with which, even in the smallest things there is every thing.”

Mind May Spirit Understanding Duty Bears Burden Shoulders Grants Horizon Smallest Godly Uprightness

Book:Thoughts that breathe

Source: Thoughts that breathe

“The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and a burden to the soul. They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant duty to acquire as much as possible in order to reduce the risk to innocent people.”

People Soul Order Universe Evil Religious Risk Humour Duty Burden Innocent Buddhist Acquire Accumulation Hazards Sects Discworld Religious Sects

Book:Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)

Source: Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)

“Take your duty, and be strong in it, as God will make you strong. The harder it is, the stronger in fact you will be. Understand, also, that the great question here is, not what you will get, but what you will become. The greatest wealth you can ever get will be in yourself. Take your burdens and troubles and losses and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunity, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these.”

Ifs Facts Opportunity Strong Wealth Loss Knowing Greater Trouble Duty Harder Stronger Burden Gods Will Greater Things Greatest Wealth

Book:Sermons for the new life

Source: Sermons for the new life

“Despite its potential, the federal government has restricted funding for creating new cell lines - putting the burden of any future research squarely on the shoulders of the private sector. Government's most basic responsibility, however, is the health and welfare of its people, so it has a duty to encourage appropriate scientific investigations that could possibly save the lives of millions.”

People Government Lines Responsibility Millions Duty Creating Research Burden Shoulders Despite Cells Welfare Appropriate Investigation Federal Government Funding Private Sector

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing end of life. Happiness cannot come to any man capable of enjoying true happiness unless it comes as the sequel to duty well and honestly done. To do that duty you need to have more than one trait. From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens.”

“Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only, can he securely lay down his head, and close his eyes.”

Eye Dying Events Duty Creatures Infinite Lays Burden Shoulders Miserable His Eyes Consideration Remove Tempted

Book:The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character

Source: The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character

“I believe that in the course of the next century the notion that it's a woman's duty to have children will change and make way for the respect and admiration of all women, who bear their burdens without complaint or a lot of pompous words!”

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Book:The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

“Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.”

Duty Training Police Soldier Burden Unfair Policemen

Author:P. J. O'Rourke