taxation quotes

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

-James Otis
c.1761  His defence, which became a rallying call of the American Revolution.

The spirit that now resists your taxation in America is†the same spirit that established the great fundamental, essential maxim of your libertiesthat no subject of England shall betaxed but byhis ownconsent. The glorious spirit of Whiggismanimates three million in America, who prefer poverty with liberty to gilded chains and sordid affluence; and who will die in defence of their rights as men, as free men.

-William, 1st Earl of Chatham known as  the Elder Pitt
  Speech to the House of Lords, 20 Jan.