Quote by Thomas Jefferson
The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be

The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ. – Thomas Jefferson

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. – Thomas Jefferson

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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just that his justice cannot sleep forever. – Thomas Jefferson

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The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose. – William Simon

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U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing. – Jean Baptist Colbert, attributed

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To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury. – Benjamin Tucker, Instead of a Book

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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. – Arthur Ashe

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We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us. – Colin Powell

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One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. – Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright, Pavarotti, My Own Story

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I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them. – Nancy Grace

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