“The nature of the encroachment upon American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching… The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity and frugality become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole of society.” John Adams (1735 – 1826) American Statesman and Founding father
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 01:06:27 +0000
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