James Otis. If you go to answers.com and type in "no taxation without representation" in the search box, you will find this in the second paragraph, second second. The link is <http://www.answers.com/no%20taxation%20without%20representation>; Have a good day:)
No. He did speak out against taxes, but he didn't say this. Actually it is a slogan of the time. We have similar things in our time as slogans. I believe it came from a political cartoon that circulated at the time.
the taxes made many of the colonists very angry because they had no representatives in the parliament to vote against the taxes or speak for the interests of the colonists.
James Otis
Taxation Without Representation is Tyranny
he is best known for the quote "taxation without representation is tyranny"
James Otis said that because of the unfair treatment
"No Taxation Without Representation!" and "Taxation Without Representation is Tyranny!" Both were essentially nonsense; if the colonies did get representation in Parliament, it would have been just a few seats (going by relative population), and they would have been consistently outvoted in colonial matters.
James Otis Jr. (1725-1783) is the lawyer who argued that "taxation without representation is tyranny" during a Boston town meeting in 1765 protesting the Sugar Act (1764).
Taxation without representation is tyranny means that it is unfair to have to pay taxes if uyou dont have a say in it............ Taxation without representation is tyranny means that it is unfair to have to pay taxes if uyou dont have a say in it............
James Otis, but the quote is "Taxation without representation is tyranny."
James Otis
no one of historical significance ever said that. However, Jonathan Mayhew (1750) coined the phrase "Taxation without representation is tyranny" From 1765-1776, this was reduced to Taxation without Representation! as a cry for revolution. Patrick Henry (VA, 1775) first wrote (resolved) that taxation without representation was unconstitutional
They used the slogan "No taxation without representation" against the British as they had nobody to represent them in the British Parliament.
"No taxation without representation" was a slogan devised by protesters in British-owned America against the English Parliament placing taxes against British colonists in America, such as sugar tax and stamp tax. The protests were one of the causes of the American Revolution.
Taxation Without Representation is Tyranny
he is best known for the quote "taxation without representation is tyranny"
"Taxation without representation is a tyranny" quotes James Otis.
James Otis said that because of the unfair treatment
James Otis, Jr. is famous for having said, 'taxation without representation is tyranny.' Otis was a political activist, and his profession was that of a lawyer.