Lafayette In New England – Charlestown MA June 17
“Permit me to give you the following toast: ‘Bunker’s Hill’, and the Holy Resistance to oppression, which had freed the American hemisphere; the anniversary toast at the jubilee of the next half century shall be: Europe Disenthralled.”
Lafayette In New England – Boston MA June 16
In the long and happy series of visits through the several parts of the Union to which you have been pleased to allude, Bunker Hill has ever been my polar star, and I now rejoice to be arrived in time to join, on the grand half-century jubilee, with my companions in arms, as being together the representative of the early and unshaken devotion of our Revolutionary Army
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.