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"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy." Daniel Webster, McCulloch v. Maryland 17 U.S. 327 (1819).
"While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State." – Vladimir Lenin, "The State and Revolution" (1917), Ch. 5
"The more the people are discontented with the oppression of taxes; the greater need the prince has of money to distribute among his partisans and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance, and enable him to plunder at pleasure. There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharaoh, get first all the peoples money, then all their lands, and then make them and their…
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