Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes About Taxes

Quotes about: Taxes

• The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Government, Discovery, America

• A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Government, Political, Taxation

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). “Democracy in America”, p.708, Regnery Publishing

• Countries, therefore, when lawmaking falls exclusively to the lot of the poor cannot hope for much economy in public expenditure; expenses will always be considerable, either because taxes cannot touch those who vote for them or because they are assessed in a way to prevent that.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Fall, Way

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

• It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already produced; it dries up the source of riches, while it usually respects acquired property. Freedom, on the contrary, produces far more goods than it destroys; and the nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Riches, Ruins, Wealth

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