Organized Quote by Frank Chodorov Download Open image “Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.” — Frank Chodorov ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Organized Robbery Should Subjects Taxation
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation, he will be arrested or… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share
“Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything, because it amounts to nothing less than outright extortion,… — Tibor R. Machan Copy Share Image
The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as 'free education' is the least free of all, for it… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax. No tinkering with this, that, or the other law will… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
We have but to remember man's natural tendency to satisfy his desires with the minimum of effort to realize how political power will be… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
“Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man — in… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political union of… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
[When people] say 'let's do something about it,' they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Posterity does not pay off anything of the national debt. Each administration adds to the debt left to it, and the promise of liquidation… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them? — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
The only beneficiaries of income taxation are the politicians, for it not only gives them the means by which they can increase their emoluments,… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Society thrives on trade simply because trade makes specialization possible, and specialization increases output, and increased output reduces the cost in toil for the… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
Organized religion has a part in the evolution of personal religion. It is the material upon which personal religion is grafted, but the process… — Lily Montagu Copy Share Image
[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not… — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Research is an organized method of trying to find out what you are going to do after you cannot do what you are doing… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science.… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of… — Farnaz Fassihi Copy Share Image
Obviously, your family life is the priority, but there's still other stuff you have to get done in a day. I think the way… — Cindy Crawford Copy Share Image
You need to realize that the galaxy is organized and structured and has been for billions of years, that the life that is out… — Drunvalo Melchizedek Copy Share Image