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“Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take such grammar as they can get and be thankful.”

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Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, was a prominent British politician and financier, a key member of the Rothschild family. Born on November 8, 1840, and died on March 31, 1915, he held several significant political positions and had a profound impact on British economics and finance. more

“The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for the secretary of commerce's office, to bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn ... seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime. Surely civilization would collapse without such essential services.”

“One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of personal income tax is that it strips many middle class families of financial reserves & seems to lend support to campaigns for socialized medicine, socialized housing, socialized food, socialized every thing. The personal income tax has made the individual vastly more dependent on the State & more avid for state hand-outs. It has shifted the balance in America from an individual-centered to a State-centered economic & social system.”

“No matter how skillfully a man play the game of life, there is but one test of his ability--did he win?”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Lever (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Lever (Illustrated)

Quote by Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

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