War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.Thomas Paine
Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard earnings of labor and poverty. It is drawn even from the bitterness of want and misery. Not a beggar passes, or perishes in the streets, whose mite is not in that mass.
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To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
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That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
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