Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2026-03-04 Mar 3, 2026Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?~ Lord ByronIt may be your intent to be our masters; how can it be ours to be your slaves?~ MeliansThe art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.~ Ulysses S. Grant Mar 2, 2026He who would be free must strike the first blow.~ Frederick DouglassIn war there is no substitute for victory.~ General Douglas MacArthurWhen you strike at a king, you must kill him.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Feb 27, 2026No taxation without representation.~ Jonathan Mayhew[A]s all history informs us, there has been in every State & Kingdom a constant kind of warfare between the governing & governed: the one striving to obtain more for its support, and the other to pay less. And this has alone occasioned great convulsions, actual civil wars, ending either in dethroning of the Princes, or enslaving of the people. Generally indeed the ruling power carries its point, the revenues of princes constantly increasing, and we see that they are never satisfied, but always in want of more. The more the people are discontented with the oppression of taxes; the greater need the prince has of money to distribute among his partisans and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance, and enable him to plunder at pleasure. There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharaoh, get first all the peoples money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants for ever ...~ Benjamin FranklinGovernments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.~ Bernard Berenson Feb 26, 2026No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.~ Calvin CoolidgeIt is easy to think the State has a lot of different objects -- military, political, economic, and what not. But in a way things are much simpler than that. The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden -- that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.~ C. S. LewisSubsidies entail politicians’ taking the citizen’s paycheck and then using it to buy his submission.~ James Bovard Previous week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print