in the lexicon of the political class, the word sacrifice means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

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• Thus it is manifest that the best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class,
  and that those states are likely to be well-administered...
• The citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy-
  a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty...
• Even though they raised the rate for first class mail in the United States we really shouldn't complain -
  it's still only 2 cents a day...
• Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing -
  George Bernard...
• Politics shouldn't be so
  political...
• I am no different then your own George Washington..
  and now that you enjoy the fruits of their sacrifice...
• Inadmissible: Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of testimony which juries are supposed to be unfit to be entrusted with,
  and which judges, therefore, rule out, even of proceedings...
• Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind.
  Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and...