"The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality."
-Andrew Jackson
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"Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down."
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"Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support."
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"It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States."
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"Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments."
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"The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power."
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