Quote by Andrew Jackson
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that wo

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. – Andrew Jackson

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Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated. – Andrew Jackson

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Government
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We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government. – Andrew Jackson

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Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support. – Andrew Jackson

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As a result of Americas efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks. – David Horowitz

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All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They. – Rudyard Kipling

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It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. – Thomas Mann

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Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion – it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours. – Robert Toombs

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Give your stress wings and let it fly away. – Terri Guillemets

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And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. Its a funny little game to play and its a slippery slope. I always say to myself Im never going to give anything away because theres never any point or benefit for me. – Kristen Stewart

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Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because theyre not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them. – Bill Gates

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There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so lets get on with it. – Len G. Murray

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