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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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Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS — our inferior one varies with the place. – Thomas Paine

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Citizenship
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Thomas Paine
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Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us. – Thomas Paine

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Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away. – John S. Coleman, address, Detroit Chamber of Commerce, 1956

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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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The payment of taxes gives a right to protection. – James M. Wayne

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