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What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.

— Sam Levenson

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

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

— Rush Limbaugh

In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

— James Otis

The American colonies, all know, were greatly opposed to taxation without representation. They were also, a less celebrated quality, equally opposed to taxation with…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

We fought the Revolutionary War for no taxation without representation, it seems to me that we are much worse off today, because we are…

— James Montgomery

Our founding fathers made no mistake when they included the right to peaceably assemble among the first tenets of democracy.

— Steve Scalise

Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...

— David Mazzucchelli

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

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

— Robert Orben

Congress realized that it was inherently unfair to penalize Americans by requiring them to pay taxes on taxes they had already paid.

— Tom Suozzi