Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four times as much by our Folly..

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing..

The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him..

Contrary to any claim of a systematically “neutral” effect of taxation on production, the consequence of any such shortening of roundabout methods of….

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

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

The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money.

What really gets me is this - it's very ironic that those who are most critical of extra tax are those who are most vociferous in demanding extra exp….

The officers of Congress, may come upon you now, fortified with all the terrors of paramount federal authority. Excisemen taxmen may come in multitud….

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery..

New taxes are so unpopular that most 'social' handout schemes are originally enacted without enough increased taxation to pay for them. The result is….

A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species..

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax..

I think the Republicans have really thoughtful financial policies, and I'm more in the middle on taxation..

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation..

Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We have the high cost of government to ….

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

There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear..

There are always principles to be depended upon in this matter of taxation ... Amidst the inconsistent, the bewildering representations offered, a ce….

The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute..

A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation..