Quotes by John Taylor
1753 – 1824
John Taylor, of Caroline County Virginia, was the preeminent theorist of Jeffersonian Old Republicanism. He was a strong advocate of individual and states rights in the face of the growing power of the federal government (“tyranny”) and opposed increased tariffs and mercantilist economic policy.
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Property Rights
John Taylor on how a “sound freedom of property” can destroy the threat to Liberty posed by “an adoration of military fame” and oppressive governments (1820)
Free Trade
John Taylor on how a republic can “fleece its citizens” just as well as a monarchy (1822)
Rhetoric of Liberty
John Taylor and the rhetoric of liberty and tyranny (1814)