“Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.”
Edmund Burke book Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
Volume i, p. 531
Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)
“It was signed, not stamped!”
On receiving a letter from President Bush. <br class="br"> Kentwood News-Ledger http://www.webcitation.org/query?id=1256525767147879&url=www.geocities.com/thecoolchip03/taylorpresidentbush.htm article, unidentified issue.
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