American justice Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— John Jay

“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

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

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

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

... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from…

— Thomas Jefferson

Abolish all taxation save that upon land values.

— Henry George

The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

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

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Until we realize that our money power is our sovereign power we cannot act as sovereigns

— E.C. Riegel

So government acts as a safeguard of our property.

— William Weld