"I think if you were to go back and try to find and review the ratification of the 16th amendment, which was the internal revenue, the income tax, I think if you went back and examined that carefully, you would find that a sufficient number of states never ratified that amendment." - U.S. District Court Judge James C. Fox, Sullivan Vs. United States, 2003.

"The IRS is an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James." Robert Brault

"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." Thomas Jefferson

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"Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute." Thomas Paine

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes." Thomas Paine

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"The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes." Lao Tzu

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"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frédéric Bastiat

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"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." James Madison

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"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery." Calvin Coolidge

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"When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government." Grover Cleveland

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“Rather than passing a thousand pages of tax reform legislation and restarting the tax code manipulation process, we should change the paradigm. It is time to eliminate the IRS and repeal the 16th Amendment.” Jim Bridenstine

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"We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes." Leona Helmsley

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“1913 wasn’t a very good year. 1913 gave us the Income Tax, the 16th Amendment, and the IRS.” Ron Paul (COINCIDENCE??)

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"I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes." Mark Twain