"The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality."
-Andrew Jackson
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"Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.“
-Andrew Jackson
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"Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down."
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"War is a blessing compared with national degradation."
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"Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support."
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"It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States."
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"There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface."
-Arianna Huffington
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"You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear."
-Candace Bushnell
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"I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context."
-Nicholas Hoult
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"Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine."
-Camille Claudel
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"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."
-John B. S. Haldane
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"Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it."
-Lionel Richie
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