I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.

The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation.

In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented.

By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them.

Some doomsayers think the collapse will be triggered by runaway government spending, excessive taxation, oppressive regulation, food shortages, fuel shortages or natural disasters such as deadly pandemics or lethal changes in the world's climate.

But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

Broadly shared progress can be achieved with policies that are designed specifically to benefit consumers and workers. And such policies need not even include redistributive taxation, which many workers oppose. Rather, they can focus on ways to encourage competition and discourage rent-seeking.

It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.

The hollowing out of the middle class. That's not just about capitalism or the structure of taxation. That is also about the fundamental truth that machines can do a lot of things better than humans used to do. A lot of those people are being pushed down to do less value-adding jobs, so they get paid less money.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

California's Depression-era lawmakers, who created our sales, use and personal income tax laws, thought it was wrong to double-tax goods and services. When drafting the state's sales tax code, they used the precise phrase 'tangible goods' to avoid any excess taxation.

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.

An education system where student selection is based on credit capacity and not merit capacity and where graduating students are no longer indebted to the nation, but increasingly indebted to the Australian Taxation Office - that's no way to improve the quality of education.

Less regulation plus less taxation plus less litigation always equals more innovation and job creation.

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.