Amount Quote by Tibor R. Machan

Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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

— Terry Pratchett

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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

— Mark Skousen

Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not…

— Alfred de Musset

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

— Mark Skousen

Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.

— Auberon Herbert

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they…

— Albert Camus

Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.

— Frank Chodorov

The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of…

— Calvin Coolidge

Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.

— Murray Rothbard