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— John Marshall"In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen."
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Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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