Cybersecurity Quote by James Madison

A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.

— James Madison

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

— John C. Calhoun

It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity.

— William Vickrey

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

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

... 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

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

By deriving it's just powers from the governed, government becomes primarily a mechanism for defense against bodily harm, theft, and involuntary servitude. It cannot…

— Ezra Taft Benson

The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity.…

— Calvin Coolidge

Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs.

— Thomas Sowell

As a general rule, governments are wise to avoid taxation that is voluntary, as they need a steady stream of income.

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

— Thomas Jefferson

Government may not redistribute private wealth or grant special privileges to any individual or group.

— Noam Chomsky