Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Harrison

The bud of victory is always in the truth.

Chester A. Arthur

If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth.

Barbara Olson

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

Calvin Coolidge

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Calvin Coolidge

If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible

Calvin Coolidge

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Dana Perino

Trustworthiness is the thing that you need the most going to a presidential election. Honest and trustworthy is one of the main questions in any presidential election.

Bob Dole

Stop telling the truth about my record!

Barry Goldwater

The fellow has absolutely no principles."Money and gall" is all he has.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.

Earl Warren

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

Earl Warren

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

David Hume

But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science...

David Hume

A Tory..., since the revolution, may be defined in a few words, to be a lover of monarchy, though without abandoning liberty; anda partizan of the family of Stuart. As a Whig may be defined to be a lover of liberty though without renouncing monarchy; and a friend to the settlement in the protestant line.

David Hume

Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.

Arthur Schnitzler

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Frederic Bastiat

Since the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to allow them liberty, how comes it to pass that the tendencies of organizers are always good?

Frederic Bastiat

This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it: (1) The few plunder the many. (2) Everybody plunders everybody. (3) Nobody plunders anybody.

Calvin Trillin

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

Dick Spring

We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax.

Albert Camus

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Thomas Jefferson

Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

Thomas Jefferson

It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods.

Thomas Jefferson

Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.

Tom Feeney

No taxation without respiration.

John Roberts

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

Terry Pratchett

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.