Taxation Without Representation Quotes

• Si Thomas Jefferson pensaba que la tributación sin representación era mala, debería ver cómo es con representación.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Business, Debt, Politics

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• Los impuestos sin representación son tiranía.

  James Otis

  Tyrants, Tyranny, Taxation

  Atribuida en John Adams, Carta a William Tudor, 29 de marzo de 1818. Esta máxima, que a menudo se cita como el grito de guerra de la Revolución Americana, se ha atribuido al argumento de Otis contra las órdenes de asistencia ante el Tribunal Superior de Massachusetts en febrero de 1761. Sin embargo, no hay constancia de que Otis utilizara estas palabras. John Adams, al describir el acontecimiento cincuenta y siete años más tarde, se refirió en su carta a Tudor a "la máxima del Sr. Otis, de que 'la tributación sin representación w

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• En 1790, la nación que había luchado en una revolución contra los impuestos sin representación descubrió que algunos de sus ciudadanos no estaban muy contentos con los impuestos con representación.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Citizens, Revolution, Nations

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.741, Best Books on

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• The British Empire was so vast and so powerful, the sun would never set on it. This is how big it was, yet these 13 little scrawny states, tired of taxation without representation, tired of being exploited and oppressed and degraded, told that big British Empire, liberty or death.

  Malcolm X

  Powerful, Tired, Liberty

  Fuente: historynewsnetwork.org

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• No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent.

  James Otis

  Majesty, Dominion, Revolution

  James Otis (1769). “A vindication of the British colonies: By James Otis, Esq; of Boston..”, p.40

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• Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

  Fletcher Knebel

  Mistake, Should Have, Political

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• Todos sabemos que las colonias americanas se oponían en gran medida a los impuestos sin representación. También se oponían, lo que es menos célebre, a los impuestos con representación.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Quality, Taxes, Colony

  "La era de la incertidumbre". Libro de John Kenneth Galbraith, Capítulo 6, p. 180, 1977.

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• What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.

  Sam Levenson

  Should Have, Liberty, Taxation

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.103, Open Road Media

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• Luchamos en la Guerra Revolucionaria por la no tributación sin representación, me parece que estamos mucho peor hoy en día, porque estamos fuertemente gravados, y sólo las corporaciones del rey controlan este País, junto con el gobierno de la mafia, de los intereses especiales.

  James Montgomery

  País, Reyes, Guerra

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• When this country here was first being founded, there were 13 colonies. The whites were colonized. They were fed up with this taxation without representation. So some of them stood up and said, liberty or death.

  Manning Marable

  Country, Liberty, Firsts

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• ¿Sanidad nacional? ¿Fondos de pensiones socializados? ¿Televisión pública? ¿Leyes de registro e incautación? ¿Leyes de confiscación? Si no estamos viviendo en la Unión Soviética de Estados Unidos, sin duda hemos vuelto a 1776 y a la "tributación sin representación".

  Michael Moriarty

  Salud, Derecho, Estados Unidos

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• The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war.

  Mike Lee

  War, Thinking, Practice

  "Tea Party Senator Mike Lee: We Need to Change the Way We Spend Money in Washington". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. April 12, 2011.

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• I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's a form of taxation without representation. I don't think we can do that.

  Mike Lee

  Thinking, Ceilings, Generations

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• To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.

  Antonin Scalia

  Sex, Decision, Gay Marriage

  "Who is Antonin Scalia and why is he out of touch with changing social views?" by Dan Roberts, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2015.

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• Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

  Robert Orben

  Might, Wonder, Cheaper

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• It is a well known and very important fact that America's founding fathers did not like taxation without representation. It is a lesser known and equally important fact that they did not much like taxation with representation.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Father, America, Important

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• The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.

  Eric Pianka

  Real, Technology, Men

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• Lo siguiente será quejarse de impuestos sin representación y arrojar una cesta de té al puerto. En el fondo es usted muy jacobino, y creo que debo renunciar a intentar curarle de ello; sólo puedo lavarme las manos y negar la responsabilidad...

  Naomi Novik

  Renunciar, Corazón, Responsabilidad

  Naomi Novik (2006). "El dragón de Su Majestad: A Novel of Temeraire", p.299, Del Rey

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• it was the United States which first established general suffrage for men upon the two principles that 'taxation without representation is tyranny' and that governments to be just should 'derive their consent from the governed.' The unanswerable logic of these two principles is responsible for the extension of suffrage to men and women the world over. In the United States, however, women are still taxed without 'representation' and still live under a government to which they have given no 'consent.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Men, Two, Justice

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