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- TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer. — Ambrose Bierce
- The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in… — Laurance Labadie
- Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. He's always… — Milton Friedman
- I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public… — Sam Houston
- The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer… — Albert J. Nock
- In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years,… — Henry Charles Carey
- A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade. — Thorstein Veblen
- I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff. — Abraham Lincoln
- Tariff policy beneficiaries are always visible, but its victims are mostly invisible. Politicians love this. The reason is simple: The beneficiaries know… — Walter E. Williams
- The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital.… — Ezra Heywood
- It is high time that the E.U.'s internal market delivered substantially lower communications charges for consumers and business people traveling abroad. A… — Viviane Reding
- There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and… — James K. Polk