It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation. — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice. — Walter Wriston Copy Share Image
Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum. — William Weld Copy Share Image
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual? — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Every dollar released from taxation that is spared or invested will help create a new job and a new salary. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The best way for the Government to maintain its credit is to pay as it goes-not by resorting to loans, but by… — William McKinley Copy Share Image
“A government is a territorial monopolist of compulsion-an agency which may engage in continual, institutionalized property rights violations and the expropriation, taxation… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I believe in taxation and health care that is outside the usual libertarian mandate, because I don't want people to have to… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
This is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free, but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
All the forms of double taxation in the current system are punitive and self-destructive because they are literally destroying people's incentive to… — Daniel J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list --… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence, the words that launched our nation -- 1,300 words. The Bible, the word of God -- 773,000 words.… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
The physical power to get the money does not seem to me a test of the right to tax. Might does not… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
The tax upon land values is the most just and equal of all taxes. It falls only upon those who receive from… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The rates of taxation climb and the levels of capital decline, until the only remaining wealth beyond the reach of the regime… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think the Republicans have really thoughtful financial policies, and I'm more in the middle on taxation. — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation. — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then,… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
The cost of taxpayer compliance with [the tax code] is over $80 billion per year, more than eight times the cost of… — Charles O. Rossotti Copy Share Image
The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
I think if you look back through time, the history of income, wealth and taxation is full of surprise. So I am… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
If the Negro knows enough to pay taxes to support the government, he knows enough to vote; taxation and representation should go… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds. — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time.… — George Will Copy Share Image
I believe in thrift as I believe in freedom, but I don't support the plutocratic hostility to taxation, regulation, and protections of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
A European currency will lead to member-nations transferring their sovereignty over financial and wage policies as well as in monetary affairs... It… — Hans Tietmeyer Copy Share Image
New taxes are so unpopular that most 'social' handout schemes are originally enacted without enough increased taxation to pay for them. The… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image