National Burden Quotes

America, our endless blessings bestow an enduring burden. But as Americans, we welcome our responsibility to lead.

You have an administration which understands America's international responsibilities and interests, but you have a population which is anxious, tired, and doesn't want to bear any burden and pay any price. And that's very difficult for whoever becomes president.

This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

Many respected economists and statesmen believe our national debt is neither unwieldy nor a dangerous burden on the country. The trouble is that a vast majority of the American people think otherwise.... It violates basic American ideas of thrift and money management. These strong public feelings cannot be ignored forever.

We do not need committees but we need commitment. The nation is already reeling under the burden of several committees formed in the last decade.

Sachin Tendulkar has carried the burden of the nation for 21 years. It is time we carried him on our shoulders

We decided that our first job was to help the schools serving the children from the very lowest income groups. Those families constitute the number one burden, the number one burden in this Nation on the school systems.

Currently, the United States has troops in dozens of countries and is actively fighting in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen (with the occasional drone strike in Pakistan). In addition, the United States is pledged to defend 28 countries in NATO. It is unwise to expand the monetary and military obligations of the United States given the burden of our $20 trillion debt.

We still have it in our power to rise above the fears, imagined and real, and to shoulder the great burdens which destiny has placed upon us, not for our country alone, but for the benefit of all the world. That is the only destiny worthy of America.

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.

The Army has become an insupportable burden to the nation; until the military are permanently deprived of their usurped power, it is vain to look for any real improvements in the civil administration.