Debt Quote by Robert Toombs

Magna Carta and the Civil War were about the power to tax.

— Priti Patel

Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.

— Thomas Paine

“The founders realized that a gigantic government would require increasingly large amounts of resources from the people in the form of taxes, and that…

— Ben Carson

The Founding Fathers realized that "the power to tax is the power to destroy," which is why they did not give the Federal government…

— Ron Paul

What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.

— Sam Levenson

“In despotic governments wars are the effect of pride; but in those governments in which they become the means of taxation, they acquire thereby…

— Thomas Paine

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

— Samuel Freeman Miller

Taxation is the legitimate support of government.

— Adolphe Thiers

The point of taxation isn't that the government knows better than you how to spend your money - it's that the government, by virtue…

— Jesse Taylor

In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would…

— Thomas Paine

We owe the government taxes. We owe our creditors interest. What do these powers owe us?

— Anna Deavere Smith

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

— John Marshall