Contradiction Quote by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector.

— John C. Calhoun

A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species.

— James Madison

“The many governments within a single metropolitan area are almost designed to fight among themselves because state law makes them largely dependent on locally…

— Bruce Katz

“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

If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For…

— Karl Marx

If my property cannot be secure, in case others over whom I have no kind of influence, may take it from me by taxes,…

— John Dickinson

Nothing can be clearer than that what the Constitution intended to guard against was the exercise by the general government of the power of…

— Melville Fuller

So vast a sum, receiving all the protection and benefits of the government, without bearing its proportion of the burdens and expenses of the…

— Ulysses S. Grant

... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from…

— Thomas Jefferson

The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is,…

— James Madison