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An oppressive legislature could drive the people to refuse to pay their taxes and to revolt with guns. We didn’t want that, so we were trying to create a revolution with fountain pens, rather than with rifles, clubs, or a confrontation between the people and the government.

— Howard Jarvis I’m Mad As Hell: The Exclusive Story of the Tax Revolt and its Leader (1979)

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I didn’t think Communists should be allowed to hold office for the same reason that I don’t think you should give Al Capone the key to your safe-deposit box.

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Tax shelters are a coffin for money.

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The people who wrote the constitution ... didn't say life, liberty and welfare or life, liberty and food stamps.

I guess nobody chose me to lead the parade. I guess I chose myself. If I hadn't done it, I don't think anybody else in California would have done it. Nobody.

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The most important thing in this country is not the school system, nor the police department nor the fire department. The right to have property in this country, the right to have a home in this country, that’s important.

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