Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"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  

"For liberalism, the individual is the end, and society the means.
For fascism, society is the end, individuals the means, and its whole
life consists in using individuals as instruments for its social ends."

~ Alfredo Rocco  

"Needless to say, under either system [socialism or fascism], the inequalities of income and standard of living are greater than anything possible under a free economy -- and a man’s position is determined, not by his productive ability and achievement, but by political pull and force. Under both systems, sacrifice is invoked as a magic, omnipotent solution in any crisis -- and “the public good” is the altar on which victims are immolated."

~ Ayn Rand  

"Our federal government, which was intended to operate as a very limited constitutional republic, has instead become a virtually socialist leviathan that redistributes trillions of dollars. We can hardly be surprised when countless special interests fight for the money. The only true solution to the campaign money problem is a return to a proper constitutional government that does not control the economy. Big government and big campaign money go hand-in-hand."

~ Dr. Ron Paul  

"When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of a free government."

~ Grover Cleveland  

"One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of personal income tax is that it strips many middle class families of financial reserves & seems to lend support to campaigns for socialized medicine, socialized housing, socialized food, socialized every thing. The personal income tax has made the individual vastly more dependent on the State & more avid for state hand-outs. It has shifted the balance in America from an individual-centered to a State-centered economic & social system."

~ W. H. Chamberlin  

"The government taxes you when you bring home a paycheck.
It taxes you when you make a phone call.
It taxes you when you turn on a light.
It taxes you when you sell a stock.
It taxes you when you fill your car with gas.
It taxes you when you ride a plane.
It taxes you when you get married.
Then it taxes you when you die.
This is taxual insanity and it must end."

~ J. C. Watts, Jr.  

~ Paul Greenberg  

"Government's view of the economy
could be summed up in a few short phrases:
If it moves, tax it.
If it keeps moving, regulate it.
And if it stops moving, subsidize it."

~ Ronald Reagan  

"No taxation without representation."

~ Jonathan Mayhew  

"Taxation without representation is tyranny."

~ James Otis  

"The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else."

~ Frederic Bastiat  

"The natural effort of every individual to better
his own condition is so powerful that it is alone,
and without any assistance, not only capable
of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity,
but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions
with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations."

~ Adam Smith  

"We can't constantly explain to our voters that
taxpayers have to be on the hook for certain risks,
rather than those who make a lot of money taking those risks."

~ Angela Merkel