"If you tax too high, the revenue..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.”

“It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.”

“Do what you know and perception is converted into character.”

“The payment of the worker is not determined by the value of his product.”

“If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.”

“Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.”

“Are we ever going to have a federal tax system that regular people can understand?”

“The supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice. We pledge ourselves to work unceasingly in State and Nation for ... the protection of home life against the hazards of sickness, irregular employment and old age through the adoption of a system of social insurance adapted to American use.”

“We assert that in those areas where the government is either unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property of our people, that our peopie are within our rights to protect themselves by whatever means necessary.”