"Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt."

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Source : William Cobbett's letter, February 10, 1804.

William Cobbett

#Death Quotes #Country Quotes #Taxation Quotes

“Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.”

Source : "A Tribute to Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 25, 2004.
“Youâ€™re not necessarily supposed to believe itâ€¦Youâ€™re just supposed to believe in it.”
“The true face of the unions is not now a man in a hard hat as much as it is a woman in a classroom or in cleaning smocks.”
“I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.”
“How quickly the apparently solidly laid foundation of one's existence could crumble.”

Source : Patrick Süskind (2015). “The Pigeon”, p.32, Penguin UK
“Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.”
“Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.”
“In moments of despair, we look on ourselves lead-enly as objects; we see ourselves, our lives, as someone else might see them and may even be driven to kill ourselves if the separation, the "knowledge," seems sufficiently final.”

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