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We, The People.....

2018-07-05 · 1,199 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

We, The People..... — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift
We, The People..... — pen and ink drawing

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"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." – Winston Churchill, “Why I am a Free Trader” (1905).

"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy." – Daniel Webster, McCulloch v. Maryland 17 U.S. 327 (1819).

"Let us forget the other names of American statesmen, that have been stamped upon these hills, but still call the loftiest — WASHINGTON. Mountains are Earth's undecaying monuments. They must stand while she endures, and never should be consecrated to the mere great men of their own age and country, but to the mighty ones alone, whose glory is universal, and whom all…

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