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Taxation Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More Taxation Quotes
- Taxation: how the sheep are shorn. — Edward Abbey
- The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation. — Sandy Adams
- No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to… — Rita Mae Brown
- Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't… — Art Buchwald
- The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. — Arthur C. Clarke
- Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax. — Charles Kettering
- Taxation is not a method by which the community corporately provides itself with essential services, but a fund to be divided between… — Neville Chamberlain
- The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor… — William Cobbett
- When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of… — Grover Cleveland
- There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair… — Murray Rothbard
- Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation. — Fletcher Knebel
- The American Dream was not about government's taking huge sums of money (under the label of "taxation") from citizens by force. The… — Robert Ringer