Authority Quote by Henry David Thoreau

An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes…

— Lysander Spooner

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

The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.

— Henry David Thoreau

This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.

— George Papandreou

If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of…

— John Locke

It is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay it. I simply wish to refuse allegiance to the State,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Do all that you say you are going to do and don't aggress against other people or their property. That's the whole of the…

— Doug Casey

I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.

— Lucy Stone

As ridiculous to approve of property and let a few men have a grossly unfair share of it, as say you are all for…

— Katharine Whitehorn

Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'm tired of being considered property.

— L. Neil Smith