167 Quotes About Taxation

Justice requires that you should not place the burdens of one man on the shoulders of another man, even though he is better able to bear them. In plainer words, that you should not make one set of men pay for what is used by another set of men.

It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exempted from active military duty. But there are no exemptions for people who, for reasons of conscience, refuse to financially support the bureaucracy that actually does the killing. Apparently, the state takes money more seriously than life.

When people say 'let's do something about it', they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.

Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

Without anarchy, there would be chaos.

There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation—the way of the State.

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.