An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy. – Daniel Webster
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. – Daniel Webster
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. – Hannah Arendt