The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.

Quote by William Cobbett

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Please your eye and plague your heart.

Please your eye and plague your heart.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it...

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it...

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much...

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much...

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of...

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of...

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor,...

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor,...

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's...

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's...

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent

The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but...

The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but...

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

You never know what you can do till you try.

You never know what you can do till you try.

I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frome, an...

I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frome, an...

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the...

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the...

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's...

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's...

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you...

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you...

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed,...

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed,...

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much...

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much...