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be obliged

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I argued more recently for a hypothecated wealth tax on very high earners to support the campaign against child poverty. Why shouldn't the super-rich be obliged to help the super-poor? Anthony Giddens

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation. George Bernard Shaw

I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honour and empire. My ancestors yielded to Roman valour. I am endeavouring that others, in their turn, will be obliged to yield to my good fortune, and my valour. Hannibal

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. Charles Caleb Colton

When judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed. Stephen Johnson Field

I think every man should be obliged to take that oath, for I have seen more treason in the last ten days than I ever supposed could exist in the United States Navy. David Dixon Porter

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