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

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.

Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.

We had 90 percent taxes before in America. All right? Didn't work.

The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.

By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't.

Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.

Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.

One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.