Taxation without representation is tyranny.
James Otis
1763
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
The contempt Americans feel for congressmen is the ineradicable hatred servants always …
The contempt Americans feel for congressmen is the ineradicable hatred servants always feel for their masters. Andrews Ferguson
National Review, June 27, 1994
The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power …
The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of thedollar and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his ownhide — as, I think, he will. Until and unless you discover that money isthe root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceasesto be the tool by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of men. Blood, whips, and guns — or dollars. Take your choice — there is no other — and your time is running out. Ayn Rand
Francisco d’Anconia, _Atlas Shrugged_, (1905-1982)
Thanksgiving was a holiday established by productive people to celebrate the success …
Thanksgiving was a holiday established by productive people to celebrate the success of their work. Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged (1905-1982)
Ordinary tyranny, oppression, excessive taxation, these bear lightly on the happiness of …
Ordinary tyranny, oppression, excessive taxation, these bear lightly on the happiness of the mass of the community, compared with fraudulent currencies and the robberies committed by depreciated paper. Daniel Webster
opposing the second Bank of the United States 1782-1852 due to inflation
In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who …
In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people. Theodore Roosevelt
1907
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and …
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and howlittle we think of the other person. Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910) (Notebooks)
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his …
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. Charles Darwin
Author of The Origin of Species (on Evolution) 1809-1882
The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where …
The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs — in the hands of the working men and working women who earned it in the first place. Robert Dole
Robert Dole, Barron’s August 12, 1996
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the …
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. Bertrand Russell
An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish, (1872-1970), English mathematician and philosopher