Langdon Cheves Quotes

Whether it's a penalty or a tax, it's all one in the same. It's coming out of somebody's hard-earned money in their pocketbooks and that's the point. So in some ways, to me, it's a distinction without a difference.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.

For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives.

Americans know that war must be paid for and it is they who must pay for it.

All taxes must, at last, fall upon agriculture.

I am truly wearied with lounging here; doing nothing but feeding on the public funds—we have really done nothing yet beneficial; and for nine weeks has the House of Representatives been engaged debating the Tariff, that could have been as well decided in two.

It is the obligation of every government to yield protection to their citizens as the consideration for their obedience

The Iraq War has been the most dangerous and costly foreign policy debacle in our nation’s history.

We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans

A government may only govern so long as the people, through their representatives, vote it the money to carry on.

As a revenue raiser, gambling defies every principle. It’s regressive—it takes far more money out of poor people’s pockets than it does for higher income [people]. It’s cannibalistic—it eats other forms of revenue—when you have your citizens dumping $2 billion down the slots [slot machines], they’re not buying a car, and you lose that tax.

No industry should have the capacity to inflict economic costs that may even surpass those of a world war.

I'm very thankful to live in a country where the government provides my protection - many police and armored cars and safe houses and things like that.

The prescription for endless war poses a far greater danger to Americans than perceived enemies do, for reasons the terrorist organisations understand very well.

While other individuals or institutions obtain their income by production of goods and services and by the peaceful and voluntary sale of these goods and services to others, the State obtains its revenue by the use of compulsion; that is, by the use and the threat of the jailhouse and the bayonet.

Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.

Taxes are not trivial - they're a huge portion of this overall economy. And that's why I focused on them.