John Marshall Quotes

The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

The power to tax is not the power to destroy.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

Give me the power to issue a nation’s money; then I do not care who makes the laws.

I don't think the government needs to be frightened of the banks in the slightest.

The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need.

The power of creating new funds upon new objects of taxation, by its own authority, would enable the national government to borrow as far as its necessities might require.

Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.

The breadth and comprehensiveness of the words of the Constitution are nowhere more strikingly exhibited than in regard to the powers, over the subjects of revenue, finance, and currency

There isn’t that much that Washington can do to effect the economy.

The power to tax is the power to govern.

… every man who puts money into the hands of a "government" (so called), puts into its hands a sword which will be used against himself, to extort more money from him, and also to keep him in subjection to its arbitrary will.

The power of the purse is the only real power of government.

The revenue of the state is the state.

We've got the power of the purse in the Congress.

Congress has the constitutional responsibility to control the power of the 'purse'.

Aside from sending someone to war or to prison, government s ability to make people involuntarily give over their money is its strongest exercise of authority over private citizens and their institutions.

The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.

From the time I took office as Chancellor of the Exchequer, I began to learn that the State held, in the face of the Bank and the City, an essentially false position as to finance. The Government itself was not to be a substantive power, but was to leave the Money Power supreme and unquestioned.

Who does not see that . . . the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of his property for the support of any one establishment, may force him to conform to any other establishment in all cases whatsoever?

As the old saying goes, 'money is power' and the more money the government takes, the more power it has over individuals.