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I thought that's what this war was about. Making people pay taxes when they didn't have no say so about it.

Lamar Trotti

Lamar Trotti (1898–1952), U.S. screenwriter, Sonya Levien, and John Ford. Adam Hartmann (Ward Bond), Drums Along the Mohawk, angry comment when a member of the frontier army may be taxed for not attending roll call (1939).

Based on the novel by Walter D. Edmonds.

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