“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.”

“The power to tax is the power to destroy.”

“The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.”

“The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their will, and lives only by their will.”

“The unlimited power of taxation willgive them the command of all the treasures of the continent; a standingarmy will be wholly at their devotion.”

“One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much smaller. This is the era of hunger unprecedented. Now, in the time of the greatest technical power, is starvation an institution. Reverse another venerable formula: the amount of hunger increases relatively and absolutely with the evolution of culture.”

“Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.”