"Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked men, who may endeavor to make us enemies. By living in peace, we can help and prosper one another; by waging war, we can kill and destroy many on both sides; but those who survive will not be the happier for that.”

“The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.”

“I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.”

“All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful”

“This is not class warfare. It’s math.”

“Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.”

“The government in business may waste time and money without rendering service. In the end the public pays in taxes. The corporation cannot waste or it will fall. It cannot make unfair rulings or give high-handed, expensive service, for there are not enough people willing to accept inferior service to make a volume of business that will pay dividends.”

“This is not class warfare. It’s math.”

“In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.”