Affair Quote by James Madison

Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little…

— Adam Smith

The United States has a system of taxation by confession

— Hugo Black

The state has been living on a revenue which was being produced in the private sphere for private purposes and had to be deflected…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

Who then would not like to see these benefits flow upon the world from the law, as from an inexhaustible source?... But is it…

— Frederic Bastiat

“The State obtains its revenue by coercion, by threatening dire penalties should the income not be forthcoming. That coercion is known as “taxation,” although…

— Murray N. Rothbard

Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not…

— Alfred de Musset

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they…

— Albert Camus

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

— James Monroe

My view is that taxation ought to be based upon ability to pay.

— Michael Madigan

If the exercise of power of internal taxation by the Union should be discovered on experiment to be really inconvenient, the federal government may…

— Alexander Hamilton

One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.

— Hillary Clinton

[The taxing power of the state] divides the community into two great classes: one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the taxes and,…

— John C. Calhoun