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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The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power. – 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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It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States. – Andrew Jackson

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I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that its the governments role to provide everything. – Rick Warren

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Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggys experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I dont take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual – scene to scene. – Elizabeth Moss

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The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, and ordered their estate. – Cecil Frances Alexander

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It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples, in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think. – René Descartes, Discourse on the Method, 1637 (translated)

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You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right. – Maya Angelou

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Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. – Jean Rostand, Le Mariage, 1927

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Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true. – Delta Burke

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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. – Jean de La Fontaine

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