Revenues Quote by Montesquieu

“The sense that just about anything goes with the collection of public revenues and the making of public expenditure has contributed mightily to the…

— Richard Epstein

Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be…

— Baron de Montesquieu

“It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them.”

— E.L. Doctorow

“I’ve never understood who owns public property—whether it’s the taxpayers, the government, or the person who uses it.”

— S.W. Southwick

“government of the profits, by the profits, for the profits.”

— Sinclair Lewis

Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Wages, profit, and rent, are the three original sources of all revenue, as well as of all exchangeable value. All other revenue is ultimately…

— Adam Smith

“The monute you get engaged, you become public property.”

— Candace Bushnell

“The author assumed that the main task of government is to distribute the collective wealth of society among its members, and that, in the…

— Roger Scruton

My own views on all matters of public revenue and public expenditure are conditioned by an acute appreciation of whose is the sacrifice that…

— John James Cowperthwaite

“Some people are born to be public property.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Hence as a private man has a right to say what wages he will give in his private affairs, so has a Community to…

— Samuel Adams