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Founding Fathers Quotes

Besides, to lay and collect internal taxes in this extensive country must require a great number of congressional ordinances,
immediately operation upon the body of the people; these must continually interfere with the state laws and thereby produce
disorder and general dissatisfaction till the one system of laws or the other, operating upon the same subjects, shall be
abolished.
Federal Farmer, Antifederalist Letter, October 10, 1787

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
T. S. Eliot

I\'m not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of
itself.
Ronald Reagan

So long as they don\'t get violent, I want to let everyone say what they
wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me. -- Albert
Einstein