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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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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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Thomas Paine
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The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. – Thomas Paine

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Government
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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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Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: animals have instincts, we have taxes. – Erving Goffman

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America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. – Laurence J. Peter

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Did you ever notice that when you put the words “The” and “IRS” together, it spells “THEIRS?” – Author Unknown

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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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