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Quote by Andrew Jackson
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only i

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. – Andrew Jackson

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Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges… which are employed altogether for their benefit. – Andrew Jackson

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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. – Andrew Jackson

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Equality
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Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support. – Andrew Jackson

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Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or, do we now believe that governments role is to equalize the results of peoples lives? – Paul Ryan

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Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it. – Will Rogers

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I think the countrys getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government. – George McGovern

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In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other mans freedom. – Clarence Darrow

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Comedy naturally wears itself out — destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at. – William Hazlitt

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