“It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation, he will be arrested or shot if he should continue to resist.”
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“You know what they say. If at first you don't succeed, try the same thing again. Sometimes the effort is called persistence and is the mark of a strong will. Sometimes it's called perseveration and is a sign of immaturity. For an individual, one of the definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again in the same way and expecting different results. For a government, such behavior is called... policy.”
― The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
― The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
“Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.”
― Paradise Lost
― Paradise Lost
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