Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven’t had capitalism. A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank. It’s not capitalism when the system is plagued with incomprehensible rules regarding mergers, acquisitions, and stock sales, along with wage controls, price controls, protectionism, corporate subsidies, international management of trade, complex and punishing corporate taxes, privileged government contracts to the military-industrial complex, and a foreign policy controlled by corporate interests and overseas investments. Add to this centralized federal mismanagement of farming, education, medicine, insurance, banking and welfare. This is not capitalism!"

~ Dr. Ron Paul  

"A tax supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state."

~ Isabel Paterson  

"To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association -- the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Social positivism only accepts duties, for all and towards all. Its constant social viewpoint cannot include any notion of rights, for such notion always rests on individuality. We are born under a load of obligations of every kind, to our predecessors, to our successors, to our contemporaries. These obligations then increase or accumulate, for it is some time before we can return any service. ... Any human right is therefore as absurd as immoral. Since there are no divine rights anymore, this concept must therefore disappear completely as related only to the preliminary regime and totally inconsistent with the final state where there are only duties based on functions."

~ Auguste Comte  

"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  

"Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as
possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the
treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes.
Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister
in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone
does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any
public duty to pay more than the law demands."

~ Judge Learned Hand  

"It would be thought a hard government
that should tax its people one tenth part."

~ Benjamin Franklin  

"[S]ince 1933 those in control of the Government, realizing that the power to tax is the power to destroy, have appeared before the Committee on Ways and Means with the proposal to tax firearms. While they narrowed it down to machine guns on the ground that it would prevent bandits from using firearms of a certain size, yet the thought was there of getting control of the private firearms of this country. I know that our chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and others on that committee were on the alert, sensed the danger, and accordingly went no further than partial taxation and regulation, but I think every member of the committee saw the purpose and the motive of the proposed tax."

~ Daniel A. Reed  

"The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism
and big nanny government is because too many people vote
in the expectation of getting something for nothing,
not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.
A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.
If children were forced to learn about the Constitution,
about how government works, about how this nation came into being,
about taxes and about how government forever threatens the cause of
liberty perhaps we wouldn't see so many foolish ideas coming
out of the mouths of silly old men."

~ Lyn Nofziger  

"No one in America fully understands the constantly changing Internal Revenue Code.
Agents of the IRS do not, judges do not, congressmen do not, and most assuredly taxpayers do not."

~ G. Edward Griffin  

"A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species."

~ James Madison  

"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."

~ Jean Baptiste Colbert  

"Is there any reason why the American people
should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks,
any more than they should be taxed to guarantee
the debts of other institutions, including merchants,
the industries, and the mills of the country?"

~ Senator Carter Glass  

"The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy
and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and
its illegitimate child, Federal Aid."

~ Tom Anderson  

"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."

~ Voltaire