Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed America is capable of great things and its people could and would lead the way if left unburdened by taxation and regulation.

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.

I therefore declare that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.

My expertise was in public finance particularly corporate taxation since I had worked at the US Treasury.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

If it is the duty of the State to educate it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education namely the taxation out of which education is provided.