Quotes by Taxation I would suggest to my honourable Friend that the foreign investor is at least as discouraged by high national debt for that, as all example shows, is the surest precursor of high taxation. John James Cowperthwaite debt taxation example By operating independently of government aid, the churches . . . avoid the resentment of those who do not want to be forced to contribute to churches to which they do not belong and of their own members who do not welcome being forced to contribute through government taxation. John M Swomley taxation government church The power to tax is the power to destroy. John Marshall libertarian taxation inspirational An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation. John Marshall taxation limits law Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress. John Marshall burden taxation law Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed. John Maynard Keynes taxation regulation government Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget. John Maynard Keynes investing taxation running Peace and prosperity are inversely proportional to the level of taxation. John Pugsley prosperity taxation levels Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation. John Roberts taxation levels authority So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression. John Quincy Adams taxation community hands Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. John Ruskin taxation land literature In a general sense, all contributions imposed by the government upon individuals for the service of the state, are called taxes, by whatever name they may be known, whether by the name of tribute, tythe, tallage, impost, duty, gabel, custom, subsidy, aid, supply, excise, or other name. Joseph Story taxation government names I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside. Ken Dodd taxes taxation pennies America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. Laurence J. Peter taxation land america Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form Laurence J. Peter irs income taxation All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working? Lawrence Summers pollution taxation why-not In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal Learned Hand taxation two america Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange, Lord Byron titles taxation flags I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation. Lucy Stone taxation bills suffering The better an entrepreneur succeeds, the more is he vilified and themore is he soaked by taxation. Ludwig von Mises taxation entrepreneur succeed «123456789»