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Taxation Quotes by James Madison
- A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species.
- 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,…
- 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,…
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- 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
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- Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation. — Fletcher Knebel
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