Freedom and liberty Quote by Benjamin Franklin Download Open image “It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.” — Benjamin Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Freedom and liberty Freedom liberty Government Hard Intriguing Libertarian Libertarian party Libertarianism Liberty Limiting government People Politics Poor richard Property rights Should Tax day Taxes Would be
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The role of government is to tax the people to the least extent possible while still taxing them enough to cover the basic needs… — Dan Crenshaw Copy Share Image
So, all levels of government should be working on tax relief. That's important. — Lee Zeldin Copy Share Image
We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary. — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
There's only one kind of tax that would please everybody - one that nobody but the other guy has to pay. — Earl Wilson Copy Share Image
In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the world economy.… — Eric Cantor Copy Share Image
We need a tax system that essentially takes very good care of the people who just really aren't as well adapted to the market… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task. — Chuck Schumer Copy Share Image
The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose. — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
To hold Old Glory, a symbol of freedom and liberty to many around the world, not just in the United States, this one means… — Eddy Alvarez Copy Share Image
Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . .… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our two nations share the important values of democracy and freedom and liberty. My visit to the United States has indeed reinforced this mutual… — Mwai Kibaki Copy Share Image
Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only… — Ben Nelson Copy Share Image