“If the power to tax is the power to destroy, the power to regulate is no less so.”
“The power to tax is the power to destroy.”
“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.”
“Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.”
“To the less privileged it was this arbitrariness that made the regime's power feel so oppressive. There were no clear principles or regulations which enabled the individual to challenge authority or the state.”
“The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.”