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The Power To Tax Involves The Power To Destroy;...the Power To Destroy May Defeat And Render Useless The Power To Create.
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"The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to
destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create...."
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, 1819.
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The power to tax involves the power to destroy. -- John Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court, 1819
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We haven't got the power to destroy the planet -- or to save it.
But we might have the power to save ourselves. -- Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park...
Do not be deceived by this technological terror you have created.
The power to destroy a planet is insignificant when compared with the power of the Force....
Power is not an ability.
Power is poison.
The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used--we cannot accept the idea of such monstrous immmorality.
-- Linus Pauling, _No More War_ (1958) US scientist, Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1954...
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars. -- General George Catlett Marshall