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“I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.”

Reason Liberty Cutting Circumstances Taxes Economics Conservative Excuse Favors Finance Economist Taxation Free Market Government Spending Free Market Capitalism

Author:Milton Friedman

“Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own government, to levy their own taxes, and to make their own laws.... There was second, the liberty of the individual man to live his own life, within the limits of decency and decorum, as he pleased -- freedom from the despotism of the majority.”

Source: Alexander Hamilton: Lapham's Quarterly - Special Issue

“What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.”

Should Liberty Modern Should Have Libertarian Representation Taxation Modern Life Forefathers Taxation Without Representation

Book:You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson

Source: You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson

“Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.”

“Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor.”

Liberty Labor Libertarian Earning Taxation

Book:Anarchy, state, and utopia

Source: Anarchy, state, and utopia

“The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything, because it amounts to nothing less than outright extortion, a gross violation of human liberty.”

Humans Liberty Amount Method Institutions Fund Civilized Taxation Gross Violation Barbaric

Author:Tibor R. Machan

“When this country here was first being founded, there were 13 colonies. The whites were colonized. They were fed up with this taxation without representation. So some of them stood up and said, liberty or death.”

Firsts Said Country Liberty Feds Representation Taxation Colony Stood Up Fed Up Taxation Without Representation

Author:Manning Marable

“The British Empire was so vast and so powerful, the sun would never set on it. This is how big it was, yet these 13 little scrawny states, tired of taxation without representation, tired of being exploited and oppressed and degraded, told that big British Empire, liberty or death.”

Littles States Bigs Powerful Liberty Sun Tired British Empires Representation Oppressed Taxation British Empire Taxation Without Representation

Author:Malcolm X