Certain Quote by Bernard Bailyn

It is a well known and very important fact that America's founding fathers did not like taxation without representation. It is a lesser known…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Congress realized that it was inherently unfair to penalize Americans by requiring them to pay taxes on taxes they had already paid.

— Tom Suozzi

Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...

— David Mazzucchelli

The Founding Fathers realized that "the power to tax is the power to destroy," which is why they did not give the Federal government…

— Ron Paul

The American colonies, all know, were greatly opposed to taxation without representation. They were also, a less celebrated quality, equally opposed to taxation with…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“We see then, in the first years of the Constitution, that some of its provisions—even those paraded most flamboyantly (like the First Amendment)—might be…

— Howard Zinn

What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.

— Sam Levenson

The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution.

— G. Edward Griffin

“The Americans are right: there should not be taxation unless the people consent to it. And it should be fair, which means the nobility…

— Michelle Moran

“the Constitution was designed not to give us rights but to prevent government from taking our rights.”

— Thom Hartmann

Magna Carta and the Civil War were about the power to tax.

— Priti Patel

We have not enjoyed unmolested those rights which the constitution of the U.S.A. and our Charters grant.

— Joseph Smith, Jr