The tree of liberty must occasionally be watered with the blood of tyrants. Bush is a tyrant, plain and simple.

We invaded Afghanistan because they were dealing with an Argentine Oil Co. over a pipeleine to feed American built power plants in Pakistan. Exxon had a hissy fit and then "coincidentally" the towers were attacked. Read "The Surreal Politics of Premeditated War" The truth shall set us all free....pass it on.

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Glad to help - - and thanks. I enjoy your page. I too collect quotations - - you never know when you are going to need a good quote for something. Gregory is a personal favorite of mine and I use the quote from Learned Hand as well as the "substance over form" doctrine advanced by the IRS in the case frequently, particularly to non-tax matters. Here are some more Tax quotes for you. If you need more, I have tons! (I am particularly partial to the one attributed to Mark Twain and the one attributed to Will Rogers): What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. --Author and Humorist Mark Twain Taxes must be laid by general rules. --Harlan F. Stone The arm of the tax-gatherer reaches far. --Wiley B. Rutledge It took an IRS accountant to catch Al Capone. --IRS Recruiting Poster Income taxes are the most imaginative fiction written today. --Author Herman Wouk [Speaking of the IRS:] Thank God they're not doing brain surgery. --Fred Allen There is untold wealth in America -- especially at income tax time. --Anonymous Income tax, if I may be pardoned for saying so, is a tax on income. --Lord Macnaghten It is the part of the good shepherd to shear his flock, not flay it. --Tiberius Caesar Internal Revenue Service: The world's most successful mail order business. --Bob Goddard We must get rid of the IRS. It's a bureaucracy fraught with totalitarianism. --Sonny Bono Nothing makes a man and wife feel closer, these days, than a joint tax return. --Gil Stern Gross inequalities may not be ignored for the sake of ease of collection. --Owen J. Roberts Every child born in America can hope to grow up to enjoy tax loopholes. --TRB (Richard Stout) I wouldn't mind paying taxes -- if I knew they were going to a friendly country. --Dick Gregory [W]e do not have, and never had, and could not have a "voluntary" tax system. --Donald C. Alexander Most voters would rather have their purse or wallet stolen than be audited by the IRS. --Frank Luntz [Suggested simplified tax form:] How much money did you make last year? Mail it in. --Stanton Delaplane It would be nice if we could all pay our taxes with a smile, but normally cash is required. --Anonymous Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund. --F.J. Raymond In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin. --Austin O'Malley Nuclear physics is much easier than tax law. It's rational and always works the same way. --Jerold Rochwald Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form. --Laurence J. Peter We [Internal Revenue Service employees] are not the bosses of taxpayers; they are ours. --T. Coleman Andrews The payment of taxes is an obvious and insistent duty, and its sanction is usually punitive. --Joseph McKenna The tight net which the Treasury Regulations fashion is for the protection of the revenue. --Felix Frankfurter "I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion. --Robert G. Menzies It is impossible to escape nice distinctions in the application of complicated tax legislation. --Felix Frankfurter This [i.e., preparing my tax return] is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. --Albert Einstein Love will find you when you least expect it. Which makes it more like the IRS than we think. --Jeff MacNelly ("Shoe") The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Illiterate Digest (1924), "Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes"

Your reference for the Judge Learned Hand quote "Anyone may so arrange...." is incorrect. The proper case name is Gregory v. Helvering not "Helvering v. Gregory." The citation should be Gregory v. Helvering 69 F.2d 809, 810 (2d Cir. 1934), aff'd, 293 U.S. 465, 55 S.Ct. 266, 79 L.Ed. 596 (1935). Just trying to be helpful.

Don't see much indication of it being a hoax. http://books.google.com/books...

madison, sf You need to get an education.

I think that this is a great quoat for the LGBT community. If law's arent passed to establish their constitutional right to equality under the law, equal recognition of marriage, guaranteed protection under hate crimes legislation, guaranteed non-discrimination employment opportunity, we will never be free and equal.

We need to be ready to defend ourselves!

The system works why mess with it! I am in Palm Beach, Fl looking for the Donald. I did not get a chance to read all you wrote. Do you yet understant that millions of people have loaned money to Uncle. Have never known anyone who had a savings bond.

Yeah, sure, trust the FBI with complaints about government usurpations. The FBI has been making 'house-calls' to people who have been 'caught' speaking out against George Bush and his war of terror. See http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2001/12/18/eguillermo.DTL . Does the FBI consider you a terrorist? Check this out: http://www.dccsa.com/greatjoy/unpolice.htm If you mention the Constitution to the FBI, or ask under what authority they have to stop you, or express dissent against federal government, you are a terrorist!

My LIst: 1) Vote 2) Support Your Local Sheriff 3) Obey Law 4) Don't Preach Violence Against Government 5) Pay Taxes Properly 6) Work To Protect the Environment

Ya - 5 stars!!! 9.11 was a huge lie --> 9.11 Was An Inside Job

Beware of those who have truth but not education. Education teaches those who get it about how much they don't know. Having truth puts an end to the use of the inquiring mind. Hitler for example burned all of the books because Nazism had the truth. Radical Islam has the truth.

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That Gandi, smart guy, even if he did not believe that cows are food. I do prefer to look after myself.

Amen Big D!! Empty Head of Spokane needs to remember who is saving his ass from all the tyrants abroad, because words do not cut it big guy. You think terrorists or any other radicals in this world want to listen to your ranting? Words are not going to save us!! They would rather cut your head off than have to listen to you and your biblical tyrade. That is what a lot of you people posting here do not understand, TALK IS CHEAP!!! These people do not care what you have to say, get it through your thick skulls! They will keep attacking until they have destroyed every last one of us. I may not agree with everything that our government does, but I damn sure believe it is better than any other country in this world and I will damn sure keep fighting for it, so you may all have the RIGHTS and FREEDOMS that you take for granted everyday. You can't bring words to a gun fight, plain and simple! However, after reading some of your comments I wish you would!! Damn ingrates!! No one is perfect in this country and we will never find a president who does everything right. They all have huge faults, because they are human just like you and me.

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So-called recreational drugs have ruined more lives than can be counted. It they weren't against the law, the U.S. economy would have crashed by now. Open your eyes fools.

Anyone who believes BIll Clinton must have just arrived from another solar system.

Has anyone noticed the glaringly improper use of the word "emulate"? I believe he might have meant emanate. Anyway, such misuse would make me question the education of Mr Gaither or the veracity of the quote.

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Pretty limp quote. Preservation of a system of government that protects property from outside forces, yes. But not to protect property from it's owner. That just gives the Government a claim to everything. Hey, wait a minute!! They DO claim just that these days if you own something that they want!!! Silly me.

Bruce, you must be looking in the mirror when you talk like that....