Taxation Rights Quotes

The power to tax is not the power to destroy.

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

America is the land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

Every good Englishman, abstracted from all regard for America, must oppose … being taxed by the British Parliament. For my own part, I am convinced that no argument … can be produced in support of this right.

I know of no power, indeed, of which a free people ought to be more jealous, than of that of levying taxes and duties.

Revolutions about taxation have shaped our history.

Magna Carta and the Civil War were about the power to tax.

When the stamp-act was made, the authority of parliament to impose internal taxes was denied, but their right to impose external ones … to lay duties upon goods … was admitted. When the act was made imposing duties upon tea, … a new distinction was set up, that the parliament had a right to lay duties … for the purpose of regulating trade but not for the purpose of raising a revenue.

What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.

There was a general notion in the English people that their cause was just. The sovereignty was supposed to be in the parent state; in the rights of sovereignty were included the rights of taxation: England, too, was considered as having protected the Americans from the French in the war that had been lately concluded. The Americans, therefore, when they resisted the mother country in her attempt to tax them, were considered on the first account as rebellious, and on the second as ungrateful