American revolution Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but…

— Thomas Jefferson

If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation.

— Samuel Adams

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

— John Jay

“The Americans are right: there should not be taxation unless the people consent to it. And it should be fair, which means the nobility…

— Michelle Moran

We have to reduce the tax burden, whether it's income tax for corporations or private individuals, and we should put a freeze on property…

— Bruce Rauner

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

My view is that taxation ought to be based upon ability to pay.

— Michael Madigan

So vast a sum, receiving all the protection and benefits of the government, without bearing its proportion of the burdens and expenses of the…

— Ulysses S. Grant

So government acts as a safeguard of our property.

— William Weld

The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest of the…

— Thomas Piketty

Abolish all taxation save that upon land values.

— Henry George

“Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher…

— Thomas Jefferson