"The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality."
-Andrew Jackson
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"The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.“
-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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"The most positive men are the most credulous."
-Alexander Pope
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-Walter Lippmann
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"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
-Georg C. Lichtenberg
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"Strong women only marry weak men."
-Bette Davis
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