Exemption Quotes

I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind. The descent of property of every kind therefore to all the children, or to all the brothers and sisters, or other relations in equal degree, is a politic measure and a practicable one. Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions or property in geometric progression as they rise.

The militia is filled with Children, Apprentices and Men of Low Rank ... as everyone who could pay a small Fine, thought it beneath them to appear on Muster.

Though the Military Service Act allowed exemption on grounds of conscience, it was regrettably vague in its definition of either "conscience" or "exemption"; and the decision as to whether a man had or had not a valid conscientious objection, and if he had, whether he was to be exempted from all forms of war service or from combatant service only, or something between the two, was left to local tribunals all over the country, who had no common standard or guidance, and generally - though not by any means invariably - took the view that every fit man ought to want to fight, and that anyone who did not was a coward, an idiot, or a pervert, or all three.

PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.

There are nearly as many officers as men in our army. Every Regiment has a Surgeon with one or two mates. Each of these (officers--Surgeons & mates) has a Servant drawn from the ranks to attend them who is always exempted on this acct. from camp & field duty. I have been told the General [Washington]. has forbidden it a hundred times in GENERAL ORDERS. But the evil continues, & no wonder, for Officers ride up to his quarters with soldiers behind them in the capacity of servants.

Are we entitled to make an exception for a poet and still shoot the others?

Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected.

There is, however, no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

No person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service.

All Americans should be exempt from the atrocities of Obamacare - no exception.

It has its perks, being Mrs. Chancellor, and if I have to use it, by golly, I'll use it. I'm through standing in lines at my age.

If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.

That's the great advantage of being a foreigner: you're not paying your dues, but you are getting all the benefits.

'Awkward' implies both solidarity and implication. Nobody is exempt.

Congress shall pass no law that exempts themselves!

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world.

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

You can't arrest me, I'm a rockstar.

Amnesty is the forgiveness of something. Amnesty is anything that says, 'Do it illegally, it will be cheaper and easier.'

Liberals always exempt themselves from the rules that they impose on others.

Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness.

Ambassadors form an exception to the general case of foreigners resident in the country, and they are exempted absolutely from all allegiance, and from all responsibility to the laws of the country to which they are deputed …. A foreign minister and those strictly belonging to the embassy are in general exempt from the criminal jurisdiction of the country to which they go

It's not really an original idea, but there's something that goes along with power and celebrity that starts to make you feel like you're impervious to certain forces that the rest of us have to live with.

Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved.

I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.