Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps, no legislative act in which greater opportunity and temptation are given to a predominant party to trample on the rules of justice. Every shilling which they overburden the inferior number is a shilling saved to their own pockets."

~ James Madison  

"Historians and economists are very good at
creating and perpetuating myths that justify increasing
the power placed in the hands of government."

~ Reuven Brenner  

~ United States Supreme Court  

"Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give,
he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing."

~ Aesop  

"Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic deficit of inertia, as the unwanted result of inadequate revenues and a restricted economy; or a temporary deficit of transition, resulting from a tax cut designed to boost the economy, increase tax revenues, and achieve -- and I believe this can be done -- a budget surplus. The first type of deficit is a sign of waste and weakness; the second reflects an investment in the future."

~ John F. Kennedy  

"The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which
complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it."

~ John Kenneth Galbraith