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“Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may have been different, but the result would once again be disaster. What happened in America was really round two of those wars - the civil war of the British Empire, with the Hanoverians playing the part of the Stuarts, and the Americans the heirs of the revolutionaries, of Cromwell and of William III, the inheritors of a true British liberty, that had somehow got lost in its own motherland.”

“Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.”

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Author:Mark Skousen

“It’s been easier to convince people to hand over half their income, their children to war, and their freedoms in perpetuity - than to engage them in seriously considering how roads might function in the absence of taxation.”

People Children War Hands Might Half Easier Function Absence Income Convince Considering Taxation

Author:Stefan Molyneux

“Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away”

People Mean Profit Saved Income Progressive Taxation Progressive Taxation

Book:Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow

Source: Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow

“When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare and health and deteriorating roads, into the commander-in-chief. And it's just become almost unpatriotic to describe Bush's fallacious and ill-advised and mistaken and sometimes misleading actions.”

“No taxation without respiration.”

Taxation Respiration

Author:Tom Feeney

“I believe that the levels of taxation advocated by liberals render those taxes a veiled form of theft. 'Give me more than half of your honestly earned money or you will be arrested' is legalized thievery.”

Giving Believe Form I Believe Levels Half Taxes Give Me Honestly Taxation Theft Arrested Thievery

Author:Dennis Prager

“I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.”

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Author:Lucy Stone

“Your profits are going to be cut down to a reasonably low level by taxation. Your income will be subject to higher taxes. Indeed in these days, when every available dollar should go to the war effort, I do not think that any American citizen should have a net income in excess of $25,000 per year after payment of taxes.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1942, Volume 11

“But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.”

People Needs Quitting Taxation Respiration

Author:Steve King

“It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation, he will be arrested or shot if he should continue to resist.”

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Book:The Ethics of Liberty

Source: The Ethics of Liberty

“Is there a point of taxation wherein even a Democrat would acknowledge it is thievery by the government?”

Government Democrat Acknowledge Taxation Thievery

Author:Dennis Prager

“Strictly speaking, it probably is not “necessary” for the federal government to tax anyone directly; it could simply print the money it needs. However, that would be too bold a stroke, for it would then be obvious to all what kind of counterfeiting operation the government is running. The present system combining taxation and inflation is akin to watering the milk; too much water and the people catch on.”

People Needs Kind Government Would Be Running Water Too Much Taxes Obvious Operations Print Milk Strokes Federal Government Taxation Inflation Combining

Author:Ron Paul

“The libertarian sees the State as a giant gang of organized criminals, who live off the theft called "taxation" and use the proceeds to kill, enslave, and generally push people around. Therefore, any property in the hands of the State is in the hands of thieves, and should be liberated as quickly as possible. Any person or group who liberates such property, who confiscates or appropriates it from the State, is performing a virtuous act and a signal service to the cause of liberty.”

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Author:Murray Rothbard

“If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.”

Ifs States Education Duty Bears Burden Educate Taxation

Author:Edmund Barton

“No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.”

People Art Government Taxation

Author:Frederick The Great

“If the Negro knows enough to pay taxes to support the government, he knows enough to vote; taxation and representation should go together. If he knows enough to shoulder a musket and fight for the flag, fight for the government, he knows enough to vote.”

Ifs Knows Should Enough Government Together Fighting Pay Support Taxes Vote Shoulders Flags Representation Taxation

Book:Selected Addresses of Frederick Douglass

Source: Selected Addresses of Frederick Douglass

“You could not possibly maintain the current level of government taxation without the taxes being hidden, and they are hidden in two very different ways. They are hidden through withholding, but they are also hidden by being imposed on business, supposedly on business, when really, of course, business can't pay taxes, only people can pay taxes.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it.”

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Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.”

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Book:Selected Writings of Thomas Paine

Source: Selected Writings of Thomas Paine

“The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.”

World Love Life God Science Business Taxes Income Hardest Hardest Thing Taxation Income Tax

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“Men like Henry George [ the pioneer of land value taxation] are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice.”

Men Beautiful Form Values Justice Imagine Land Intellectual Artistic Combination Taxation Pioneers Fervent Keenness

Author:Albert Einstein

“In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary.”

Would Be Taxation Payment Free Society

Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them.”

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Book:Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches

Source: Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches

“Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four times as much by our Folly.”

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Book:Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

“It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money.”

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Author:Margaret Thatcher

“To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the purpose of providing for the general welfare.' For the laying of taxes is the power, and the general welfare the purpose for which the power is to be exercised. They are not to lay taxes ad libitum for any purpose they please; but only to pay the debts or provide for the welfare of the Union.”

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Book:The portable Thomas Jefferson

Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson

“Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation? ... Today in our country the tax collector's share is 37 cents of every dollar earned. Freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp.”

Source: Rendezvous with destiny

“National Health? Socialized pension funds? State-controlled television? Search and seizure laws? Forfeiture laws? If we're not living in the Soviet Union of the United States we certainly have returned to 1776 and 'taxation without representation.'”

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Author:Michael Moriarty

“I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's a form of taxation without representation. I don't think we can do that.”

Thinking Form Can Do Generations Vote Debt Representation Taxation Ceilings Unborn National Debt Debt Ceiling Taxation Without Representation

Author:Mike Lee

“It is my view that what is important is cutting government spending, however spending is financed. A so-called deficit is a disguised and hidden form of taxation. The real burden on the public is what government spends (and mandates others to spend). As I have said repeatedly, I would rather have government spend one trillion dollars with a deficit of a half a trillion than have government spend two trillion dollars with no deficit.”

Said Two Important Real Government Form Views Half Cutting Dollars Burden Spending Taxation Deficit Mandates Government Spending

Author:Milton Friedman

“I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.”

Knows Country Prayer Answers Products Taxes Taxation Answers To Prayer

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.”

People Knows Whole Social Taxes Relation Criminals Friendly Taxation

Author:Mark Twain

“No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.”

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Author:John Ruskin

“Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.”

Common Civilization Taxes Police Soldier Seeds Lists Servant Greek Dancer Priests Museums Ballet Fabulous Taxation Gothic Slumber Ballet Dancer Embryos Civil Servants Steeples

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that excessive revenues are obtained. Monarchy is well calculated to ensure this end. It is the popery of government; a thing kept up to amuse the ignorant, and quiet them into taxes.”

Men Believe Wells Ends Government Understanding Wonderful Quiet Taxes Ignorant Mysterious Taxation Revenue Monarchy Mysterious Things

Book:Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

“Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked the woman what here sorrow was, and she replied, We are a family of hunters. My father was eaten by a tiger. My husband was bitten by a tiger and died. And now my only son! Why don't you move down and live in the valley? Why do you continue to live up here? asked Confucius. And the woman replied, But sir, there are no tax collectors here! Confucius added to his disciples, You see, a bad government is more to be feared than tigers.”

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Author:Lin Yutang

“The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.”

Way Belief Taxes Gains Worthwhile Taxation Speculation Ceilings Capital Gains

Book:Uncivil liberties

Source: Uncivil liberties

“The officers of Congress, may come upon you now, fortified with all the terrors of paramount federal authority. Excisemen taxmen may come in multitudes; for the limitation of their numbers no man knows. They may, unless the general government be restrained ... go into your cellars and rooms, and search, ransack, and measure, everything you eat, drink, and wear.”

Knows Men May Government Rooms Numbers Drink Authority Congress Terror Limitation Officers Multitudes Taxation Paramount Cellars

Author:Patrick Henry

“By operating independently of government aid, the churches . . . avoid the resentment of those who do not want to be forced to contribute to churches to which they do not belong and of their own members who do not welcome being forced to contribute through government taxation.”

Want States Government Church Members Aids Welcome Resentment Taxation Government Aid

Book:Confronting church and state: memoirs of an activist

Source: Confronting church and state: memoirs of an activist

“So vast a sum, receiving all the protection and benefits of the government, without bearing its proportion of the burdens and expenses of the same, will not be looked upon acquiescently by those who have to pay the taxes. . . . I would suggest the taxation of all property equally.”

States Government Church Pay Taxes Benefits Property Burden Protection Proportion Expenses Receiving Taxation

Author:Ulysses S. Grant

“It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.”

Duty Taxes Skins Sheep Taxation Income Tax Shepherds Good Shepherd

Author:Tiberius

“I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.”

People Ifs Men Home Fall Fighting Wish Military England Paid Establishment Taxation Reducing Wales Great Military Remission

Author:Richard Cobden

“Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.”

Opportunity Community Pay Taxes Civilized Taxation Tax Day

Book:Actual Government as Applied Under American Conditions

Source: Actual Government as Applied Under American Conditions

“Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people.”

People Able Bears Taxes Mass Instruments Burden Income Contribution Taxation

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4

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