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Governments last only as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed


Bernard Berenson

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Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.
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LEE RADZIWILL In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
GAYLE GARDNER As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
KAJOL Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS) As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about th...
ETHAN SUPLEE Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen.
CASSANDRA CLARE I'm not funny. Never have been and, as far as I can tell, I never will be.
DAVID DOBKIN As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience.
WILHELM FRICK those who will defend authority against rebellion must not themselves rebel.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowher...
IAN HUNTER Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.
THOMAS HOBBES The singing can last as long as 10, 15, 20 minutes to as long as 23 hours -- on average we are looki...
JOSHUA SMITH Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
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BRANDON FLOWERS The only question I have is whether I'd like more of a contrast ... That's nothing personal against ...
BERNIE BICKERSTAFF Anybody can do this. As long as they can use scissors, have an iron, and can use it without burning ...
LORA BARSHON I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.
EDWARD BENNETT WILLIAMS They say that dreams are only real as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?
RICHARD LINKLATER, WAKING LIFE Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible.
NICK FLYNN The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protec...
THOMAS JEFFERSON As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
MARK MOTHERSBAUGH As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
ALBERT J. NOCK Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
DAVID KOECHNER Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
HAVELOCK ELLIS As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illu...
ALAN MOORE It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Protecting ourselves optimally against terrorist acts will require that both national and state gove...
BRUCE ALBERTS I have been going around to all the fraternities informing them they need someone to defend themselv...
JORDAN YOUNG The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, ...
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PETER GLECKLER You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond.
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JESSE BALL As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.
GARRY TRUDEAU As far as festivals, nothing tops Cannes.
SASHA LANE A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.
JOYCE MEYER Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
DICK VAN DYKE Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
JEF RASKIN As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes.
JON BATISTE As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.
TROY BROWN That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.
DAVE MADDEN Irrespective of who's up against me at tournaments, I have always relied completely on my own st...
CHEN LONG Your marriage can only succeed as long as both partners patiently wait to witness the success light.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) As long as Congress doesn't change the rules of the game, there's only so far the states can go.
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The surrounding nature is the best erudite master to teach us the basics of living.
ANUJ SOMANY Success is not a journey, it's a destination called satisfaction.
ANUJ SOMANY I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Gu...
FRANK BLACK As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization again...
PETE HEGSETH Is it fair to call The Princess Bride a classic? The storybook story about pirates and princesses, g...
CARY ELWES My rookie year was huge for me as far as the learning curve, especially those last three games.
TIM TEBOW Cricketers are made to feel that they are very special. That is okay as long as cricketers realise t...
HARSHA BHOGLE As long as a language lives, the war will not perish.
VIKRANT PARSAI City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.
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EVA LONGORIA Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we...
NICHOLAS SPARKS La vida era como una canción.
En el comienzo, hay misterio, al final, hay una confirmación, ...
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BERNARD LEVIN Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally ...
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BERNARD BECKETT People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the par...
BERNARD WILLIAMS The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at ...
BERNARD WILLIAMS Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
BERNARD WILLIAMS Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was clas...
BERNARD WILLIAMS Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.
BERNARD WILLIAMS I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put o...
BERNARD WILLIAMS People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by ...
BERNARD WILLIAMS A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
BERNARD WILLIAMS If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's t...
BERNARD WILLIAMS What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
BERNARD WILLIAMS A half-truth is usually less than half of that.
BERNARD WILLIAMS 'Humanity' is a name not merely for a species but also for a quality.
BERNARD WILLIAMS The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.
BERNARD WILLIAMS An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
BERNARD WILLIAMS Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.
BERNARD WILLIAMS The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who,...
BERNARD WILLIAMS Disagreement does not necessarily have to be overcome. It may remain an important and constitutive f...
BERNARD WILLIAMS We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.
BERNARD WILLIAMS Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becomin...
BERNARD WILLIAMS Look, have whatever in your collection at home, but everybody needs a little Friday night. And reall...
BERNARD EDWARDS Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to t...
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