Trouble springs from idleness.
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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.
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Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. Written when he was 16.
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