Best Taxation Quotes
235 Taxation quotes by 161 unique authors
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The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps,…
— James Madison
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In a general sense, all contributions imposed by the government upon individuals for the service of the state, are called taxes, by whatever name they…
— Joseph Story
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As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to protect it from…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.
— Thomas Jefferson
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No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.
— George Washington
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It is evident from the state of the country, from the habits of the people, from the experience we have had on the point itself,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when…
— Alexander Hamilton
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There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political economy, so much…
— Alexander Hamilton
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There is perhaps, nothing more likely to disturb the tranquillity of nations, than their being bound to mutual contributions for any common object that does…
— Alexander Hamilton
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No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they come out of the people…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea,…
— James Madison
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I've been told that some members of Congress disagree with my tax cut proposal. Well, you know it's been said that taxation is the art…
— Ronald Reagan
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Our loyalty lies with little taxpayers, not big spenders. What our critics really believe is that those in Washington know better how to spend your…
— Ronald Reagan
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We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American dream that wealth is denied to…
— Ronald Reagan
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The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.
— Ronald Reagan
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Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
— William Cobbett
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My family achieved success not in spite of, but because of the American system of taxation. After all, without reliable and safe roads thereād have…
— Unknown Author
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Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal mania, unless you…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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If all those magnificent cathedrals with their valuable lands in Boston, Philadelphia and New York were taxed as they should be, the taxes of women…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years…
— John F. Kennedy
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If you believe women are constituted differently to men then remove taxation from them. But if you're a democrat and you believe in government of…
— Unknown Author
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