Burden

Famous quotes containing the word burden:

“God knows that any man who would seek the presidency of the United States is a fool for his pains. The burden is all but intolerable, and the things that I have to do are just as much as the human spirit can carry.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

“What makes loneliness an anguish
Is not that I have no one to share my burden,
But this:
I have only my own burden to bear.”
—Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961)

“Our inherent human charity and our religious beliefs will be taxed to the limit. No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity of an education, a job, or simple justice.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)