“That the legislative and executive powers of the State should be separate and distinct from the judiciary; and that the members of the two first may be restrained from oppression, by feeling and participating the burdens of the people, they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken, and the vacancies be supplied by frequent, certain, and regular elections, in which all, or any part of the former members, to be again eligible, or ineligible, as the laws shall direct.” PeopleShouldFirstsMayTwoStatesFeelingsBodyLawCertainPoliticsTakenReturnPeriodsMembersDirectElectionBurdenOppressionFormerFixedExecutivesStationsParticipatingJudiciaryVacancyExecutive Power Author:George Mason
“Technology plows through history at an accelerating rate, shifting the burden of production off labor into the nonhuman factor because man uses his highest ingenuity to avoid servile labor.” MenUseWisdomPoliticsTechnologyEconomyHighestLaborRateProductionsBurdenFactorsLiberalismShiftingIngenuity Author:Louis O. Kelso
“We very much hope that as we get growth that we can reduce the burden of taxation, that we can reduce income tax and increase the amount of genuine free enterprise and business enterprise... This is going... toward the restoration of the personal responsibility, the independence, with every man a property owner, every man a capitalist.” MenWisdomPoliticsGrowthResponsibilityEconomyAmountTaxesIncreaseIndependencePropertyBurdenEvery ManGenuineIncomeLiberalismEnterpriseOwnersCapitalistTaxationRestorationPersonal ResponsibilityIncome TaxFree Enterprise Author:Margaret Thatcher
“In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those appointed to them which it would be wrong to decline, though foreseen to bring them intense labor and great private loss.” ShouldGovernmentWould BePoliticalPoliticsLossOfficeLaborBurdenIntenseDeclineVirtuousPublic OfficeForeseenTimes Like These Book:Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness Source: Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness
“In the old days, land was important as the giver of all things. That period is gone now. Technology and brainpower are all that matters and yet conflicts over land, specially one like on the India-China border, that yields nothing, continue. This is a burden of ancient history that we continue to carry. If tomorrow there is settlement on planet Mars, we will begin to worry if others are interested.” IfsImportantMatterPoliticsTechnologyWorryGoneLandPlanetsTomorrowPeriodsConflictAll ThingsIndiaAncientBurdenChinaBordersYieldMarsGiverOld DaysSettlementAncient History Author:John Kenneth Galbraith