If our soldiers are not overburdened with money it is not because they have a distaste for riches if their lives are not unduly long it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

Love feels no burden thinks nothing of trouble attempts what is above its strength pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself and all things possible.

The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third Century Roman jurist Julius Paulus Prudentissimus. Yet this ancient concept which forms the legal and moral cornerstone of the American judicial system is quickly being undermined in the name of 'national security.'

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized processed and available to the right people in a format for decision making it is a burden not a benefit.

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

Hope is like the sun which as we journey toward it casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.