Born Quote by Samuel Adams

If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free…

— Samuel Adams

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

— David Mazzucchelli

“Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George and continue the slaves of King…

— Henry David Thoreau

Those who advocate either slavery or income taxation should be ashamed of themselves. Genuine freedom entails the abolition, not the reform, of income taxation…

— Jacob G. Hornberger

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

— James Otis

“Sovereignty, for the same reason as makes it inalienable, cannot be represented; it lies essentially in the general will, and will does not admit…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Let these truths be indelibly impressed on our minds — that we cannot be happy, without being FREE — that we cannot be free,…

— John Dickinson

“The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament.…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

— George Bernard Shaw

Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have…

— Margaret Thatcher

“coercive redistribution of wealth through government’s abuse of law and misapplication of rights destroys individual liberty; ambition, productivity, and wealth; and the purpose of…

— Mark R. Levin

The attempt to regulate relations between people too closely, by means of the law, in the name of an abstraction such as equality, leads…

— Anthony Daniels