167 Quotes About Taxation

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.

Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.

It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods.

Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.

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

Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.

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

The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.