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— Calvin Coolidge"A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude."
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The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed, the last must be substituted; and where this becomes the ordinary instrument of government there is an end to liberty!
— Alexander Hamilton
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An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought.
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