Conceded Quote by Robert A. Heinlein Download Open image “The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.” — Robert A. Heinlein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conceded Libertarian Limits Mistress Taxes
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy. — Daniel Webster 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
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
Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“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
No one imagines that a law professing to tax will be permitted to destroy. — John Marshall Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion. — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I'm going to give Vargas the chance to cash his last paycheck. I would like to say publicly that Fatty Vargas has always feared… — Ricardo Mayorga Copy Share Image
The brain is conceded to be the master organ of the body, the regulator of life, the source of human progress. — Frederick Tilney Copy Share Image
You look tired," Rachel told Jason. "I wish I could jog and sleep at the same time." "Can't you?" Ferrin asked, joining them at… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self-sovereignty; the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
I think it is conceded that I generally do pretty big things as a manager, am audacious in my outlays and risks, give much… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
At John Schlesinger's funeral at a synagogue in St John's Wood some years ago the person I stood next to said to me encouragingly,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians... All publication… — Scott Joplin Copy Share Image
My favorite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt. The rest can never be mastered. — George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen Copy Share Image
It must be conceded by those who admit the authority of Scripture (such only he is addressing) that from the decision of the word… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Hale!' Kat cried, but the boy only stared at her. 'Fine,' she conceded. 'I love your boat.' 'Ship.' 'Ship ... Your ship is beautiful. — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
