“The power to tax is not the power to destroy while this Court sits.”

—  Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Panhandle Oil Co. v. Mississippi ex rel. Knox http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?friend=oyez&court=us&vol=277&invol=218, 277 U.S. 233 (1928).
1920s

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United States Supreme Court justice 1841–1935

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