Benjamin Disraeli, Bernard Berenson, Justice John Marshall

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"To tax the community

for the advantage of a class

is not protection, it is plunder."

-- Benjamin Disraeli

(1804-1881) Prime Minister of England, British statesman, novelist

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/B...aeli.Quote.B6BC

 

 

"Governments last as long

as the undertaxed can defend themselves

against the overtaxed."

-- Bernard Berenson

(1865-1959) American art historian

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/B...nson.Quote.80B9

 

 

"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy;

because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation."

-- Justice John Marshall

(1755-1835) US Supreme Court Chief Justice

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/J...hall.Quote.B6C6