The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.

[When people] say 'let's do something about it,' they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax. No tinkering with this, that, or the other law will stop the trend toward socialism. We must repeal the Sixteenth Amendment.

Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.

There cannot be a "good" society until there are "good" men.

Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.

The corruption of freedom is in proportion to the moral deterioration of the people. For a people who have lost their sense of self-respect have no need for freedom. And the income tax, by transferring the property of earners to the State, has disintegrated the moral fiber of Americans to such a degree that they do not even recognize the fact.