"Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. Think about it, 1848 Karl Marx, Communism.... I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS, my colleagues. I yield back all the rules, regulations, fear, and intimidation of our current system."

-- James Traficant

#Thinking Quotes #America Quotes #Yield Quotes

“Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.”
“The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry into its nature and purpose as a deliberate human activity. Doubtless this is due to the inevitable drawback that mathematical study is saturated with technicalities from beginning to end.”
“Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.”
“I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt.”
“If world peace is to be established, peace in the individual must be established first. Transcendental Meditation directly brings peace in the individual life.”
“From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?]”
“Well, I would have struck him, but I would have had to get up. You have no notion how difficult it is to arrange skirts when sitting down; it took me five minutes together the first time.”

Source : Naomi Novik (2009). “In His Majesty's Service: Three Novels of Temeraire (His Majesty's Service, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War)”, p.212, Del Rey
“These men are all talk; What is needed is action - action!”

Source : "William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879, Volume 1". Book by Wendell Phillips Garrison, Francis Jackson Garrison, 1969.

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