• Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

    Franklin D. Roosevelt: Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
    Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.525, Best Books on