Taxation Quotes

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanctio...

To make a contented slave, you must make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and ...

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they cre...

Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an acti...

The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, ...

I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with...

Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more selle...

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiati...

The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for ...

The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In...

Conflict is not unavoidable. However, it is nonsensical to consider the institution of a state as a ...

A government is a compulsory territorial monopolist of ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction) and, ...

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of soc...

The demoralization that the debase­ment of the currency left in its wake played a major role in brin...

When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private ...

For every dollar that is spent on the (boondoggle) bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers...

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it the...

There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach ...

I was reading in the paper today that Congress wants to replace the dollar bill with a coin. They’ve...

The power to tax involves the power to destroy.

It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exe...

The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations,...

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

Rhetorical bombast, music and song resound, banners wave, flowers and colors serve as symbols, and t...

Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.

So why don’t Americans cheat? Because they think that their system is legitimate. People accept auth...

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Tr...

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

It must be remembered that a vast majority of mankind’s history has been spent living under the rule...

Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, ...

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15...

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many m...

It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and th...

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

I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this eno...

The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government a...

All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the U...

What is peculiar and novel to our age is that the principal goal of politics in every advanced socie...

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a ta...

The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they a...

It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health car...

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the sur...

Socialism may be established by force, as in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—or by vote, as ...

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limi...

When you consider socialism, do not fool yourself about its nature. Remember that there is no such d...

There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those...

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting b...

Governments last as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.