Defeat Quote by John Marshall

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

— John Marshall

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

— Daniel Webster

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

— John Marshall

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

— Orrin Woodward

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

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

— Markham Shaw Pyle

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal eÇŒoyments, it only shifts expenses from…

— Antoine Destutt de Tracy

A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal enjoyments, it only shifts expenses from…

— Antoine Destutt de Tracy

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

— John Marshall

Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.

— Samuel Freeman Miller