“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
By the end of the Twentieth Century, taxation will be reduced to a minimum, the entire world will be open to trade,… — Erastus Wiman Copy Share Image
The American colonies, all know, were greatly opposed to taxation without representation. They were also, a less celebrated quality, equally opposed to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
National Health? Socialized pension funds? State-controlled television? Search and seizure laws? Forfeiture laws? If we're not living in the Soviet Union of… — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
Men like Henry George [ the pioneer of land value taxation] are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Here we shall have to say simply that all government expenditures must eventually be paid out of the proceeds of taxation; that… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Short term, the most important thing is to put people back to work ... If they're working, that means they're paying taxes,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. The funds that… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I decided that if nobody else was going to do anything to rectify this colossal inequity in taxation, I'd have to do… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
This is not the time for political fun and games. This is the time for a new beginning. I ask you now… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Print neatly. That's the kind of advice that the IRS considers a "dynamite" tax tip. If you ask them a real tax… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
You talk to any of the job creators, and they'll tell you one of the things that concerns them the most is… — Jeb Hensarling Copy Share Image
..either immediately or ultimately every dollar of government spending must be raised through a dollar of taxation. Once we look at the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Worried about an IRS audit? Avoid what's called a red flag. That's something the IRS always looks for. For example, say you… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
European pantywaists might keep voting for high-spending governments, but the U.S. was founded on a popular revolt against taxation. — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
The power of creating new funds upon new objects of taxation, by its own authority, would enable the national government to borrow… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
When it comes to taxation, Americans are still banging out letters on a typewriter and dropping them in the mail box while… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly Internet has reduced the possibilities of taxation. Why should I buy something here if I can buy it from a company… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I will eliminate capital-gains taxes for the small businesses and the startups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I would suggest to my honourable Friend that the foreign investor is at least as discouraged by high national debt for that,… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything, because it amounts to nothing less than… — Tibor R. Machan Copy Share Image
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Government is able to afford a suitable army and a suitable navy. It may maintain them without the slightest danger to… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Governments first of all have been able to amass, through the taxation process, large sums of capital which they have redistributed to… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
Taxation is not a method by which the community corporately provides itself with essential services, but a fund to be divided between… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image