Quote by John Marshall Download Open image ““The power to tax involves the power to destroy.”” — John Marshall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“If the power to tax is the power to destroy then the power to profit is the power to create.” — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
“If the power to tax is the power to destroy, the power to regulate is no less so.” — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.... — John Marshall Copy Share Image
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
“The people starve because those in authority over them devour too many taxes; that is why they starve.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
“government that continues to tax the rich until there are no more rich, and then begins to tax everyone else without ever curbing its… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
“power that isn’t really justified by the will of the governed should be dismantled.” — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
John Marshall's warning that the power to tax is the power to destroy has taken on far greater meaning... more specifically, the power of… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well — John Marshall Copy Share Image
It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is...If two laws conflict with each other, the… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
I have always believed that national character... depends more on the female part of society than is generally imagined. Precepts from the lips of… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The federal government is acknowledged by all to be one of enumerated powers. The principle, that it can exercise only the powers granted to… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The events of my life are too unimportant, and have too little interest for any person not of my immediate family, to render them… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The institution of Masonry ought to be abandoned as one capable of much evil, and incapable of producing any good which might not be… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
If the agency of the mother in forming the character of her children is, in truth, so considerable, as I think it - if… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged, than the perfect equality of nations. Russia and Geneva have equal rights. It results from… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
The government of the Union, then, ... is, emphatically, and truly, a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
