Colonist Boycotts Quote by Harlow Giles Unger

The Stamp Act imposed on the colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure. Parliament has no right to put its…

— George Washington

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

The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the…

— Benjamin Franklin

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

Margaret Thatcher's decision to use Scotland as a testing ground for the poll tax was arguably the most disastrous attempt at fiscal engineering since…

— Linda Colley

“In 1784, the new prime minister, William Pitt the Younger, reduced the tea tax from 119 percent to 12.5 percent. Cheap tea was then…

— Maureen Stanton

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

— David Mazzucchelli

[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of…

— Benjamin Franklin

“The Westminster government continued to aggravate the situation by haughty mismanagement, and on 4 July 1776 the Congress passed a Declaration of Independence from…

— Adam Zamoyski

'Boycott caused all the trouble,' they say, as if I could have canvassed all those people personally to take a stand in 1983. Nonsense!…

— Geoffrey Boycott

“Boycott is a widely understood form of social, economic, and political action.”

— Steve Crawshaw

Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.

— Mahatma Gandhi