Quotes About No Taxation Without Representation

#1. We fought the Revolutionary War for no taxation without representation, it seems to me that we are much worse off today, because we are heavily taxed, and only the king's corporations control this Country, together with mob rule, of the special interests.

James Montgomery

#2. To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.

Antonin Scalia

#3. The voices of fear are so loud today. The voices of love should never shout, but neither should they whisper - not at a time like this.

Marianne Williamson

#4. To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.

Hans Hofmann

#5. What I still didn't understand was how women could vote in a patriarchal, polygamous society and yet how they clearly voted to support the theocracy.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#6. If the Negro knows enough to pay taxes to support the government, he knows enough to vote; taxation and representation should go together. If he knows enough to shoulder a musket and fight for the flag, fight for the government, he knows enough to vote.

Frederick Douglass

#7. The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war.

Mike Lee

#8. I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.

Lucy Stone

#9. It is a well known and very important fact that America's founding fathers did not like taxation without representation. It is a lesser known and equally important fact that they did not much like taxation with representation.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#10. In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented.

Ernestine Rose

#11. When governments run on petro dollars or petro revenue instead of taxes, then they kind of sever the link between taxation and representation, and if you're not being taxed, then you're not being represented.

Andrew Nikiforuk

#12. Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

Fletcher Knebel

#13. Writing by the seat of your pants is like a director turning on the camera and telling his/her actors to do something.

Beem Weeks

#14. It is quite exciting, incidentally, to know that the Genesis account of the creation of mankind through its first parentage in Adam and Eve bears the marks of derivation from the primary Egyptian symbolic depiction.

Alvin Boyd Kuhn

#15. Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.

Dambisa Moyo

#16. In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#17. The American colonies, all know, were greatly opposed to taxation without representation. They were also, a less celebrated quality, equally opposed to taxation with representation.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#18. The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.

Eric Pianka

#19. I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's a form of taxation without representation. I don't think we can do that.

Mike Lee

#20. Next you will cry about taxation without representation, and throw a basket of tea into the harbor. You are indeed a very Jacobin at heart, and I think I must give up trying to cure you of it; I can but wash my hands and deny responsibility

Naomi Novik

#21. If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

Rush Limbaugh

#22. Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

Robert Orben

#23. Taxation without representation is tyranny.

James Otis

#24. Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#25. I forget what the weather was like that day, probably cloudy with a chance of emotion. All I remember is that it was windy; it was the type of wind that would blow your words in the opposite direction so they would never be heard.

Hillary Wen, Hildy Wen

#26. In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Henry Ward Beecher

#27. National Health? Socialized pension funds? State-controlled television? Search and seizure laws? Forfeiture laws? If we're not living in the Soviet Union of the United States we certainly have returned to 1776 and 'taxation without representation.'

Michael Moriarty

#28. Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.

John Burroughs

#29. I have one promise I can make you, Kate." He reached for her hair, coiled some of it around his hand, and used it to pull her toward him.
"What's that?" she whispered breathlessly. Not so cocky now.
"You're going to enjoy this.

Jackie Braun

#30. I try to do everything to say, 'OK, will my mother like this? Will she be pleased? Will she be proud of that? How do I know she's happy and she's smiling down at me from heaven?' And that's what I try to go by and walk by.

Jennifer Hudson

#31. Inflation is taxation without representation.

Milton Friedman