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Taxation Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.
- Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a…
- Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.
- 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…
- It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods.
- 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…
- Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.
- ... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation…
- The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings,…
- Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.
- I like the power given the Legislature to levy taxes, and for that reason solely approve of the greater house being chosen by the people…
More Taxation Quotes
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- 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
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