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A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.

Calvin Coolidge

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Calvin Coolidge

American politician, 30th President of the United States

July 4th, 1872 - January 5th, 1933

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