John Marshall Quotes About Taxes

Quotes about: Taxes

• The power to tax is the power to destroy.

  John Marshall

  Inspirational, Taxation, Libertarian

  John Marshall, Joseph Potter Cotton (2000). “The Constitutional Decisions of John Marshall”, p.338, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

• An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.

  John Marshall

  Law, Taxation, Limits

• The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.

  John Marshall

  Liberty, Useless, May

  McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

• No one imagines that a law professing to tax will be permitted to destroy.

  John Marshall

  Law, Imagine, Taxes

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