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A just security to property is not afforded by that government under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species; where arbitrary tax invade the domestic sanctuaries of the rich and excessive taxes grind the faces of the poor; where the keenness and competitions of want are deemed an insufficient spur to labor, and taxes are again applied by an unfeeling policy as another spur; in violation of that sacred property which heaven, in decreeing man to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, kindly reserved to him in the small repose that could be spared from the supply of his necessities.
Government | Heaven | Labor | Man | Policy | Property | Repose | Reward | Sacred | Security | Government |
The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes of it.
The highest reward for a person’s work is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
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Noam Chomsky, fully Avram Noam Chomsky
If persons are going to be independent thinkers, they are probably going to pay a cost. One has to begin with the way the world works: the world does not reward honesty and independence, it rewards obedience and service. It's a world of concentrated power, and those who have power are not going to reward people who question that power.
Cost | Honesty | Obedience | People | Power | Question | Reward | Service | Thinkers | World |
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
Robert Ingersoll, fully Robert Green "Bob" Ingersoll
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
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