Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into
prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying
to lift himself up by the handle."

~ Sir Winston Churchill  

"The United States has a system of taxation by confession."

~ Justice Hugo L. Black  

"Given the opportunity, the IRS will take the easy way out and grab whatever it can... the IRS does not really care about you and what your future... may be."

~ Santo Presti  

"Eight decades of amendments... to (the) code have produced a virtually
impenetrable maze... The rules are unintelligible to most citizens...
The rules are equally mysterious to many government employees who are
charged with administering and enforcing the law."

~ Shirley Peterson  

"Justice in the hands of the powerful is
merely a governing system like any other.
Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice,
but of a sly effective order, based entirely on
cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak,
their capacity for pain, humiliation and misery."

~ Georges Bernanos  

"When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice,
that an old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians
have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had only one before."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about 'social justice' all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get re-elected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice."

~ Thomas Sowell  

"But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."

~ Declaration of Independence  

"It is impossible to introduce into society
a greater change and a greater evil than this:
the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder."

~ Frederic Bastiat  

"I know no class of my fellowmen,
however just, enlightened, and humane,
which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely
with the liberties of any other class."

~ Frederick Douglass  

"No matter what anyone may say
about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes,
in the end they come out of the people who toil."

~ Calvin Coolidge  

"Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive,
for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice
in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote
for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation."

~ Karl Marx (Questionable)  

"There is only one success:
to be able to spend your life in your own way,
and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it."

~ Christopher Darlington Morley