Quotes from Edward Archbold, 1848

RIGHTFUL TAXATION IS THE PRICE OF SOCIAL ORDER. In other words, it is that portion of the citizen's property which he yields up to the government in order to provide for the protection of all the rest. It is not to be wantonly levied on the citizen, nor levied at all except in return for benefits conferred. The individual pays... then he has the broad mantle of the law spread over him, to protect him when he sleeps and defend him when he awakes.