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What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue. - Th

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue. – Thomas Paine

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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. – Thomas Paine

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Men
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Thomas Paine
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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. – Thomas Paine

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Happiness
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Thomas Paine
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. – Thomas Paine

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Integrity
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This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher. – Albert Einstein, about filling out his income tax form, 1944

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Taxes

Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes. – Benjamin Franklin, letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, 1789 November 13th

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Taxes

Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed. – Daniel Defoe, The Political History of the Devil, 1726

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Taxes

All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says. – Walter B. Wriston

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Taxes

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