Freedom Quote by Thomas Paine

The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity.…

— Calvin Coolidge

We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our…

— Thomas Jefferson

This is, after all, the country that gave the world the rule of law, parliamentary democracy, the right to own property, the English language,…

— Andrea Leadsom

Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money taxes, levied…

— Leo Tolstoy

Nothing is more calculated to make a demagogue popular than a constantly reiterated demand for heavy taxes on the rich. Capital levies and high…

— Ludwig von Mises

We must teach our children that the preservation of liberty, and of an order of society conducive to human dignity, requires that a free…

— Alan Keyes

Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.

— William Hague

We must rouse in our people the unanimous wish for power in this sense, together with the determination to sacrifice on the altar of…

— Friedrich von Bernhardi

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace.…

— Samuel Adams

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask…

— Anonymous

“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

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

— Terry Pratchett