Justice Quote by James K Polk

So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its…

— John Quincy Adams

It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue…

— Wilfrid Laurier

In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a…

— Henry Charles Carey

If one individual, or one class, can call in the aid of authority to ward off the effects of competition, it acquires a privilege…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as…

— Alexander Hamilton

The true principle of taxation is the benefit principle - those who benefit from a government service should pay for it. It's also known…

— Mark Skousen

No duty is more imperative for the government than the duty it ;owes the people to furnish them with a sound and uniform currency,…

— Abraham Lincoln

Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim…

— Benjamin Disraeli

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

— John Marshall

The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create…

— John Marshall

Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.

— Samuel Freeman Miller