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Quote from Henry David Thoreau,


"Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber,
would never manage to bounce over the obstacles
which legislators are continually putting in their way."


By:

Henry David Thoreau (more quotes by Henry David Thoreau or books by/about Henry David Thoreau)


(1817-1862) American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and transcendentalist

Source:

"Civil Disobedience," 1849

Categories:

Commerce, Government, Politics, Power, Prohibition, Taxation, Trade, Tax

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