04/15/1888
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"A government is not only kind, but performs its highest duty when it restores to the citizen taxes unlawfully collected."
"I believe that this appropriation of the public funds is not within the constitutional power of the Congress."
"The direct tax levied in 1861 is not even suspected of invalidity."
"It is cause for congratulation that watchfulness and care and fidelity to its purposes are all that are necessary to insure to the Government and our people all the benefits which its inauguration pro..."