Abuse Quote by Samuel Freeman Miller

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

— John Marshall

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

— James Madison

The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create…

— John Marshall

The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary.

— David Hume

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

— Daniel Webster

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

— Terry Pratchett

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people

— Anonymous

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

All power in human hands is liable to be abused.

— James Madison

Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.

— David Ricardo

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.

— Mark Skousen

“Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to…

— Murray N. Rothbard