British Quote by David Mazzucchelli

If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from…

— Samuel Adams

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.

— Ron Paul

The Founding Fathers realized that "the power to tax is the power to destroy," which is why they did not give the Federal government…

— Ron Paul

What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain…

— Bernard Bailyn

It is a well known and very important fact that America's founding fathers did not like taxation without representation. It is a lesser known…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Those who advocate either slavery or income taxation should be ashamed of themselves. Genuine freedom entails the abolition, not the reform, of income taxation…

— Jacob G. Hornberger

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

— Laurence J. Peter

“Between federal, state, local, sales, and real estate taxes, more than half of my income goes to pay taxes. Since that is the case,…

— Ben Carson

“Doctor Munson to Jared Gilsom: "We fought you because we didn’t want some ruler thinking he could tell us what we could do. We…

— Robert Edward

“The Americans are right: there should not be taxation unless the people consent to it. And it should be fair, which means the nobility…

— Michelle Moran

“Indeed, taxation and other forms of aggression-through-government are so taken for granted in our culture that one of our most popular sayings is that…

— Mary J. Ruwart

“nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves pay to…

— Henry Fielding