Authority Quote by John Locke

Thirdly, the supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent: for the preservation of property being…

— John Locke

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

— John Marshall

Let the people have property and they will have power - a power that will forever be exerted to prevent the restriction of the…

— Noah Webster

If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“The power to tax involves the power to destroy.”

— John Marshall

Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few,…

— James Mill

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny…

— William Pitt The Younger

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

— Daniel Webster

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

No one imagines that a law professing to tax will be permitted to destroy.

— John Marshall

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny…

— William Pitt

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property in his…

— John Locke