Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2009-04-15 Apr 15, 2009To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection, it is plunder.~ Benjamin DisraeliGovernments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.~ Bernard BerensonAn unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.~ Justice John Marshall Apr 14, 2009Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?~ Ronald ReaganGovernment does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets.~ Ronald ReaganHave we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation? ... Today in our country the tax collector's share is 37 cents of every dollar earned. Freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp.~ Ronald Reagan Apr 13, 2009Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.~ Jesus of NazarethWhat good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?~ Jesus of NazarethWoe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!~ Jesus of Nazareth Apr 10, 2009But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.~ Frederic BastiatTaxation without representation is tyranny.~ James OtisIt is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness.~ Sigmund Freud Apr 9, 2009If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.~ Edmund BurkeDid you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and nobody to be kicked?~ Lord Chancellor ThurlowSo low and hopeless are the finances of the United States, that, the year before last Congress was obliged to borrow money even, to pay the interest of the principal which we had borrowed before. This wretched resource of turning interest into principal, is the most humiliating and disgraceful measure that a nation could take, and approximates with rapidity to absolute ruin: Yet it is the inevitable and certain consequence of such a system as the existing Confederation.~ William Richardson Davie Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print