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Quote by Andrew Fletcher
My Lord, I sorrow to learn that I am so timorous of heart and to l

My Lord, I sorrow to learn that I am so timorous of heart and to learn that my Lord could be so forgetful of the elementary facts of nature, and also of mankind, that he believes when the lesser joins the greater, it can remain itself and maintain it – Andrew Fletcher

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Arms are the only true badge of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man from a slave. – Andrew Fletcher

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If a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation. – Andrew Fletcher

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It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them. – Tiberius Caesar

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The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing. – J. B. Colbert

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Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax. – Lord Thomas Dewar

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Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt. – William Cobbett

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