"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy".
John Marshall
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents".
James Madison
"The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it". H.L. Mencken
"Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not it's inhumanity but it's anti-humanity". Eric Hoffer
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