Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Quotations by Category Quotations by Person Quotations SearchQuotes for the Day 2021-02-26It is very imprudent to deprive America of any of her privileges. If her commerce and friendship are of any importance to you, they are to be had on no other terms than leaving her in the full enjoyment of her rights.~ Benjamin FranklinWhen more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of a free government.~ Grover ClevelandGovernment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.~ H. L. Mencken Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print This quote is found in these categories: About Bio of Quotations by Books by/about videos on Wikipedia