Bears Quote by John Marshall

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

— Daniel Webster

The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— John Marshall

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

— John Marshall

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

— John Marshall

“If the power to tax is the power to destroy, the power to regulate is no less so.”

— Markham Shaw Pyle

“If the power to tax is the power to destroy then the power to profit is the power to create.”

— Orrin Woodward

The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.

— Rand Paul

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

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

— William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

The imposition of taxes has its limits. There is a maximum which cannot be transcended. Suppose the citizen to be taxed by the general…

— Henry Clay

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.

— William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham