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“Men who prefer any load of infamy, however great, to any pressure of taxation, however light.”
Provenance
- Source:
- On American Debts.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3c3c57a9260a48208ad3a154a9783c04ecff56cf8a44462e23599f572f0e4266
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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