Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Liberty Quotes


"The average taxpayer in Germany or Japan pays less for the defense of his country than the average taxpayer in America pays for the defense of Germany or Japan." -David Bergland lawyer, law professor, writer, lecturer, publisher, libertarian Source: Libertarianism In One Lesson, P. 41 (Sixth Edition 1993).
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/David.Bergland.Quote.555F

"Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reenactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free." -Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.B52F

"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. [It] has made the individual vastly more dependent on the State." -W. H. Chamberlin (1897-1969) American historian, journalist, author
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/W..H..Chamberlin.Quote.D56F

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