"The physical power to get the money does not seem to me a test of the right to tax. Might does not make right even in taxation. To hold that what the use of official authority may get the state may keep, and that if it cannot get hold of a nonresident stockholder it may hold the company as hostage for him, is strange constitutional doctrine to me."

-- Robert H. Jackson

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“I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.”
“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”
“Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.”
“From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination.”
“An album is like a child and after a while I was ready to give birth!”

Source : "Gloria Trevi Launches New Self-Titled Album" by Alexandra J. Gratereaux, www.foxnews.com. March 22, 2011.
“A fundie claimed "God invented science". All of science is tentative and approximate, also sometimes mistaken. Is that the best God can do?”
“Kids have *_____ never* taken guidance from their parents. If you could travel back in time and observe the original primate family in the original tree, you would see the primate parents yelling at the primate teenager for sitting around and sulking all day instead of hunting for grubs and berries like dad primate. Then you'd see the primate teenager stomp up to his branch and slam the leaves.”
“We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.”

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