James M. Buchanan Quotes

When you reduce taxes on higher earners it's vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation shares in the approach.

We are all are equal, but some pay higher tax rates than others.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

Tax should be the same for everybody.

Distribute taxes among all in a fair and equitable manner and make them general, not exempting anyone because of his noble rank or great riches, nor even exempting your own officials or courtiers or followers. Do not levy on anyone a tax which is beyond his capacity to pay…

Tax reform advocates generally agree that a fair code shouldn't single out certain groups for favorable treatment at the expense of others.

Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike.

The Constitution favors no racial group - no political or social group.

Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small.

No one is above the law, and no one is beneath the law.

Over the longer term, we need to work toward a pro-growth tax code that is fairer and simpler than what we have now. Anything that meets those criteria is going to be better than the failing and dysfunctional tax code we have today.

From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time.

Men give us most rarely that which we really want, not favor, but - Justice. Nothing is easier than to coax them to pet us like children, nothing more difficult than to persuade them to treat us like responsible human beings.

I'm a human rights activist and it doesn't make any sense not to treat everybody the exact same way. It just doesn't make any sense, it's counter intuitive, it's inhuman and it has to stop.

I understand the demands for justice and fairness made by the L.G.B.T. community.

The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.

Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race.

The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?

You cannot say you've achieved equality until EVERYONE is equal and has equal opportunities!

The only shape in which equality is really connected with justice is this - justice presupposes general rules. If these general rules are to be maintained at all, it is obvious that they must be applied equally to every case which satisfies their terms.

All people should be treated equally, regardless of who they are or who they love.

You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.

I think they ought to be treated equally. Period.

If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.

I believe in equal rights for all citizens. One law for all.