The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.

  • -- William Cobbett 威廉·科贝特

税收的趋势是创造一个不劳动的阶级,从劳动的人那里拿走劳动的产品,并把它给那些不劳动的人。

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Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.

因此,现代科学一方面认为,自然,无论是有机的还是无机的,都在朝着一种秩序的状态努力,而人类的行为也受同一趋势的支配。

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

我想说,我比戈德华特更保守。他只是想回到没有所得税的年代。

I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.

我认为这是人类的一种倾向,这种倾向已经存在了一段时间,那就是尽可能地证明自己的价值。

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

思考是一件从来没有人能够征税的事情。