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title: "374 Income tax Quotes by 261 authors"
description: "Browse 374 Income tax quotes by 261 authors. Discover the best Income tax sayings and thoughts."
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> [What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/what-at-first-was-plunder-assumed-the-softer-name-of-revenue/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [I have not purposely gone out to try to avoid paying income tax.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-redknapp/i-have-not-purposely-gone-out-to-try-to-avoid-paying-income-tax/)

[Harry Redknapp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-redknapp/)

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> [There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-rogers/there-is-no-income-tax-in-russia-but-there-s-no-income/)

[Will Rogers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-rogers/)

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> [I got five kids - I claim three for income tax purposes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-morgan/i-got-five-kids-i-claim-three-for-income-tax-purposes/)

[Tracy Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-morgan/)

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> [gun registration is no more complex than the Income Tax system.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-jordan/gun-registration-is-no-more-complex-than-the-income-tax-system/)

[Joe Jordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-jordan/)

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> [The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/the-hardest-thing-to-understand-in-the-world-is-the-income-tax/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [Our Income Tax System is a disgrace to the human race.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jimmy-carter/our-income-tax-system-is-a-disgrace-to-the-human-race/)

[Jimmy Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jimmy-carter/)

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> [A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/a-heavy-progressive-or-graduated-income-tax/)

[Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/)

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> [On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-lehrer/on-my-income-tax-1040-it-says-check-this-box-if-you-are-blind-i/)

[Tom Lehrer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-lehrer/)

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> [And my response is 70,000 people in the state of Maine that paid income tax in 2011 will not be paying income tax in 2012.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-lepage/and-my-response-is-70-000-people-in-the-state-of-maine-that-paid/)

[Paul LePage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-lepage/)

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> [Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-royko/hating-the-yankees-is-as-american-as-pizza-pie-unwed-mothers-and/)

[Mike Royko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-royko/)

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> [All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-wriston/all-the-congress-all-the-accountants-and-tax-lawyers-all-the-judges/)

[Walter Wriston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-wriston/)

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> [“The success of a man should be measured not by his income but by his tax returns.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haresh-sippy/the-success-of-a-man-should-be-measured-not-by-his-income-but-by-his/)

[Haresh Sippy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haresh-sippy/)

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> [When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/when-there-is-an-income-tax-the-just-man-will-pay-more-and-the-unjust/)

[Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/)

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> [Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernie-sanders/ford-s-federal-income-tax-rate-was-just-2-3-percent-in-2009-even/)

[Bernie Sanders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernie-sanders/)

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> [The corporate income tax, in particular, is a tax that puts American corporations at a disadvantage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-buck/the-corporate-income-tax-in-particular-is-a-tax-that-puts-american/)

[Ken Buck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-buck/)

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> [It used to be that we taxed property - zapped farmers basically. And there were very rich people who didn't pay that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-r-reid/it-used-to-be-that-we-taxed-property-zapped-farmers-basically-and/)

[T.R. Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-r-reid/)

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> [Income tax filing and payment day should be moved from April 15th to November 1st so it can be close to election…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-g-calabresi/income-tax-filing-and-payment-day-should-be-moved-from-april-15th-to/)

[Steven G. Calabresi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-g-calabresi/)

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> [When Obama boasts that it will be a huge boon to the economy to give amnesty to millions of low-wage workers, who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-coulter/when-obama-boasts-that-it-will-be-a-huge-boon-to-the-economy-to-give/)

[Ann Coulter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-coulter/)

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> [Few Americans realize it, but the United Nations is driving to take control over the Internet. You remember, the folks who want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-l-herman/few-americans-realize-it-but-the-united-nations-is-driving-to-take/)

[Arthur L. Herman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-l-herman/)

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> [People are tired of working longer hours for lower wages, of seeing decent paying jobs go to China and other low-wage countries,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernie-sanders/people-are-tired-of-working-longer-hours-for-lower-wages-of-seeing/)

[Bernie Sanders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernie-sanders/)

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> [I am running for President because it is obvious that no Democrat or Republican is ever going to stop the relentless growth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-browne/i-am-running-for-president-because-it-is-obvious-that-no-democrat-or/)

[Harry Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-browne/)

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> [Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-lloyd-webber/here-s-the-truth-the-proposed-top-rate-of-income-tax-is-not-50-per/)

[Andrew Lloyd Webber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-lloyd-webber/)

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> [ “\[T\]he last major effort to simplify the income tax system was passed in 1986; succeeding Congresses have amended it sixteen thousand times… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-boortz/t-he-last-major-effort-to-simplify-the-income-tax-system-was-passed/)

[Neal Boortz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-boortz/)

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> [Withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan... Collect our own revenue from personal income tax... Resume provincial responsibility for health-care policy. If Ottawa…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-harper/withdraw-from-the-canada-pension-plan-collect-our-own-revenue-from/)

[Stephen Harper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-harper/)

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> [Sometimes I wonder how much of these debates have to do with the desire, the legitimate desire, for that history to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/sometimes-i-wonder-how-much-of-these-debates-have-to-do-with-the/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [We also need the provisions in the tax bill that will permit working mothers to increase the deduction from income tax liability…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-f-kennedy/we-also-need-the-provisions-in-the-tax-bill-that-will-permit-working/)

[John F. Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-f-kennedy/)

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> [“Christie had sent Jared’s father, Charles Kushner, to jail in 2005. Charlie Kushner, pursued by the feds for an income tax cheat,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/christie-had-sent-jared-s-father-charles-kushner-to-jail-in-2005/)

[Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/)

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> [You've been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-'fess up! With…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/you-ve-been-telling-us-about-how-to-secure-peace-but-come-on-now/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

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> [So I'm not proposing anything radical. I just believe that anybody making over $250,000 a year should go back to the income…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/so-i-m-not-proposing-anything-radical-i-just-believe-that-anybody/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [Recalling that a good chunk of the 47 percent who don't pay income taxes are Romney supporters - especially of course seniors…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-kristol/recalling-that-a-good-chunk-of-the-47-percent-who-don-t-pay-income/)

[William Kristol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-kristol/)

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> [It is easier to start taxes than to stop them. A tax an inch long can easily become a yard long. That…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/b-c-forbes/it-is-easier-to-start-taxes-than-to-stop-them-a-tax-an-inch-long-can/)

[B. C. Forbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/b-c-forbes/)

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> [“Trade liberalization has created other problems, too. It has increased the pressures on government budgets, as it reduced tariff revenues. This has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ha-joon-chang/trade-liberalization-has-created-other-problems-too-it-has-increased/)

[Ha-Joon Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ha-joon-chang/)

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> [“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what.” As he described them, they were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/there-are-47-percent-of-the-people-who-will-vote-for-the-president-no-2/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

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> [“In the United States, the Supreme Court blocked several attempts to levy a federal income tax in the late nineteenth and early…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-piketty/in-the-united-states-the-supreme-court-blocked-several-attempts-to/)

[Thomas Piketty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-piketty/)

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> [ “\[W\]hen you look at who’ll be collecting this tax, the chances of drumming up a conspiracy suddenly look even worse. In America,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-boortz/w-hen-you-look-at-who-ll-be-collecting-this-tax-the-chances-of/)

[Neal Boortz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-boortz/)

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> [“America's industrial success produced a roll call of financial magnificence: Rockefellers, Morgans, Astors, Mellons, Fricks, Carnegies, Goulds, du Ponts, Belmonts, Harrimans, Huntingtons,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-bryson/america-s-industrial-success-produced-a-roll-call-of-financial/)

[Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-bryson/)

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> [“They call themselves conservatives but that’s not it, either. They don’t want to conserve what we now have. They’d rather take the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-reich/they-call-themselves-conservatives-but-that-s-not-it-either-they-don/)

[Robert Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-reich/)

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> [“Once a rebel, always a rebel. You can't help being one. You can't deny that. And it's best to be a rebel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-sillitoe/once-a-rebel-always-a-rebel-you-can-t-help-being-one-you-can-t-deny/)

[Alan Sillitoe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-sillitoe/)

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> [“I have no criticism of the basic concept of irrefutable authority. Properly employed, it is the easiest, the surest, and the proper…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rex-e-lee/i-have-no-criticism-of-the-basic-concept-of-irrefutable-authority/)

[Rex E. Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rex-e-lee/)

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                        "text": "Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country.",
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                        "text": "Sometimes I wonder how much of these debates have to do with the desire, the legitimate desire, for that history to be recognized. Because there is a psychic power to the recognition that is not satisfied with a universal program, it's not satisfied by the Affordable Care Act, or an expansion of Pell grants, or an expansion of the earned-income tax credit.",
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                        "text": "We also need the provisions in the tax bill that will permit working mothers to increase the deduction from income tax liability for costs incurred in providing care for their children while the mothers are working. In October the Commission on the Status of Women will report to me. This problem should have a high priority, and I think that whatever we leave undone this year we must move on this in January.",
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                        "text": "“Christie had sent Jared’s father, Charles Kushner, to jail in 2005. Charlie Kushner, pursued by the feds for an income tax cheat, set up a scheme with a prostitute to blackmail his brother-in-law, who was planning to testify against him. Various accounts, mostly offered by Christie himself, make Jared the vengeful hatchet man in Christie’s aborted Trump administration career. It was a kind of perfect sweet-revenge story: the son of the wronged man (or, in this case—there’s little dispute—the guilty-as-charged man) uses his power over the man who wronged his family.”",
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                        "text": "You've been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-'fess up! With your great experience, don't you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes, so that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne'er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!",
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                        "text": "So I'm not proposing anything radical. I just believe that anybody making over $250,000 a year should go back to the income tax rates we were paying under Bill Clinton. Back when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest budget surplus in history, and plenty of millionaires to boot. ... At the same time, most people agree that we should not raise taxes on middle-class families or small businesses -- not when so many folks are just trying to get by.",
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                        "text": "Recalling that a good chunk of the 47 percent who don't pay income taxes are Romney supporters - especially of course seniors (who might well 'believe they are entitled to heath care,' a position Romney agrees with), as well as many lower-income Americans (including men and women serving in the military) who think conservative policies are better for the country even if they're not getting a tax cut under the Romney plan. So Romney seems to have contempt not just for the Democrats who oppose him, but for tens of millions who intend to vote for him.",
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                        "text": "“[W]hen you look at who’ll be collecting this tax, the chances of drumming up a conspiracy suddenly look even worse. In America, .03 percent of all of America’s companies—688 companies, to be exact—sell 48.5 percent of all of the merchandise. Those companies aren't going to help you cheat; there’s simply too much at stake. Date also show that 3.6 percent of all of America’s companies—92,334 firms—collectively make 85.7 percent of all sales… When it comes to the services sector, the fact is that 1.2 percent of all businesses make approximately 80 percent of the sales in the services sector. They have too much to lose to risk helping you cheat. Even if the FairTax were paid only by these few companies, we would still have a better collection rate than the IRS currently has with the income tax.”",
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                        "text": "“America's industrial success produced a roll call of financial magnificence: Rockefellers, Morgans, Astors, Mellons, Fricks, Carnegies, Goulds, du Ponts, Belmonts, Harrimans, Huntingtons, Vanderbilts, and many more based in dynastic wealth of essentially inexhaustible proportions. John D. Rockefeller made $1 billion a year, measured in today's money, and paid no income tax. No one did, for income tax did not yet exist in America. Congress tried to introduce an income tax of 2 percent on earnings of $4,000 in 1894, but the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional. Income tax wouldn't become a regular part of American Life until 1914. People would never be this rich again. Spending all this wealth became for many a more or less full-time occupation. A kind of desperate, vulgar edge became attached to almost everything they did. At one New York dinner party, guests found the table heaped with sand and at each place a little gold spade; upon a signal, they were invited to dig in and search for diamonds and other costly glitter buried within. At another party - possibly the most preposterous ever staged - several dozen horses with padded hooves were led into the ballroom of Sherry's, a vast and esteemed eating establishment, and tethered around the tables so that the guests, dressed as cowboys and cowgirls, could enjoy the novel and sublimely pointless pleasure of dining in a New York ballroom on horseback.”",
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                        "text": "“They call themselves conservatives but that’s not it, either. They don’t want to conserve what we now have. They’d rather take the country backwards – before the 1960s and 1970s, and the Environmental Protection Act, Medicare, and Medicaid; before the New Deal, and its provision for Social Security, unemployment insurance, the forty-hour workweek, and official recognition of trade unions; even before the Progressive Era, and the first national income tax, antitrust laws, and Federal Reserve. They’re not conservatives. They’re regressives. And the America they seek is the one we had in the Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century.”",
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                        "text": "“Once a rebel, always a rebel. You can't help being one. You can't deny that. And it's best to be a rebel so as to show 'em it don't pay to try to do you down. Factories and labour exchanges and insurance offices keep us alive and kicking - so they say - but they're booby-traps and will suck you under like sinking-sands if you're not careful. Factories sweat you to death, labour exchanges talk you to death, insurance and income tax offices milk money from your wage packets and rob you to death. And if you're still left with a tiny bit of life in your guts after all this boggering about, the army calls you up and you get shot to death. And if you're clever enough to stay out of the army you get bombed to death. Ay, by God, it's a hard life if you don't weaken, if you don't stop that bastard government from grinding your face in the muck, though there ain't much you can do about it unless you start making dynamite to blow their four-eyed clocks to bits.”",
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                        "text": "“I have no criticism of the basic concept of irrefutable authority. Properly employed, it is the easiest, the surest, and the proper way to resolve conflicts. There is an omnipresent temptation, however, to rely on such authority regardless of its applicability; and I know of no better examples than the scriptures and the Constitution. We find it easy to lapse into the expansive notion that the Constitution, like the gospel, embraces all truth and that it protects and guarantees all that is right, equitable, and just. From that grand premise it is only a short and comfortable leap to the proposition that the Constitution embraces my particular notion of what is right, equitable, and just. The Constitution lends itself to this kind of use because of its breadth. Issues such as foreign aid, fluoridation of water, public versus private education, progressive income tax, to which political party I should belong and which candidate I should support; questions about economic development and environmental quality control; questions about the power of labor unions and the influence of big business in government--all these are issues of great importance. But these questions cannot and ought not to be resolved by simply resorting to irrefutable authority. Neither the Constitution nor the scriptures contain answers to these questions, and under the grand plan of eternal progress it is our responsibility to develop our own skills by working out our own answers through our own thought processes. For example, the Constitution authorizes an income tax, but it neither commands nor forbids an income tax. That is a policy issue on which the Constitution--and the scriptures--are silent. Attempting to resolve our differences of opinion by asserting that if our opponents only understood the scriptures or the Constitution they would see that the whole answer is contained therein only results in foreclosing the careful, rational attention that these issues deserve and require. Resorting to several broad provisions of the Constitution in answer to that kind of question is just plain intellectual laziness. We, of all people, have an obligation to respect the Constitution--to respect it not only for what it is and what it does, but also for what it is not and what it does not do. For in this as in other contexts, improper use of that which is grand can only result in the diminution of its grandeur.”",
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