Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt. (William Cobbett)

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

William Cobbett

Related topics

country debt great national nothing produce system taxation torpor well

Related quotes

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest. View quote
Jonathan Swift
National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government. View quote
Richard Perle
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. View quote
George Eliot