To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not. (Thomas Paine)

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

Thomas Paine

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