Thomas Paine (a founding father) -" Men did not make the earth... It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. ... Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds."
Can I use this appeal to authority to knock down your appeal to authority?
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If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
- Louis D. Brandeis
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