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Quote by Benjamin Franklin
We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by

We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness. – Benjamin Franklin

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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. – Benjamin Franklin

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

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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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Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that havent been taxed before. – Art Buchwald

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