Citizens Quote by Ron Paul

“Between federal, state, local, sales, and real estate taxes, more than half of my income goes to pay taxes. Since that is the case,…

— Ben Carson

Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...

— David Mazzucchelli

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

“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

“Doctor Munson to Jared Gilsom: "We fought you because we didn’t want some ruler thinking he could tell us what we could do. We…

— Robert Edward

The Declaration of Independence promised citizens equal access to economic opportunity. This was the powerful principle for which men were willing to fight the…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than…

— Anonymous

The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power.

— Tom Coburn

The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil,…

— Rand Paul

The federal government is far larger than the Founding Fathers ever intended it to be. We have racked up over $16 trillion of debt…

— Matt Salmon

The Government cannot afford to have a country made up entirely of rich people, because rich people pay so little tax that the Government…

— Russell Baker

If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to…

— Will Rogers