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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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It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes. – Thomas Paine

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God
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Thomas Paine
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Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles he can only discover them. – Thomas Paine

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Science
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But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing. – Thomas Paine

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Nature
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Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Taxes

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

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Taxes

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund. – F.J. Raymond

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Taxes

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. – Mark Twain, Notebook, 1902

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Taxes

Random Quotes

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning. – King Solomon

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God

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them. – Christopher Hitchens

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Education

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. – Wayne Dyer

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Life

The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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Inventing, Inventions