In the Founders Words!: Excessive taxation

"Excessive taxation ... will carry reason and reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election." --Thomas Jefferson

Liberty

"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort that it values more, it will lose that too." --W. Somerset Maugham

"Liberty and order will never be completely safe until a trespass on the Constitutional provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents and invasion of the dearest rights." --James Madison, 1792

"The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it." --Enrico Malatesta

"Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people." --Jefferson Davis

"The times call for courage. The times call for hard work. But if the demands are high, it is because the stakes are even higher. They are nothing less than the future of human liberty, which means the future of civilization." --Henry Hazlitt

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." --Thomas Paine

"Moderation in principle is always a vice." --Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man

"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day." --Thomas Jefferson

Insight

"In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other." --French writer Voltaire (1694-1778)

"Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes." --American psychologist and philosopher Will Durant (1885-1981)

"By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others." --French economist, statesman and author Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)

"Did you ever know a politician that was not 'facing the most critical time in the world's affairs' every time he spoke in public?" --humorist Will Rogers (1879-1935)

In the Founders Words!

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Excessive taxation

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