Taxes And Taxation Quotes

"Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others."

"We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness."

"I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them."

"If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible."

"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."

"The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has."

"No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others."

"Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you do not know when it is through if you are a crook or a martyr."

"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr."

"I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer."

"Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old."

"Every advantage has its tax."

"Taxes, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society."

"Only little people pay taxes."

"All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury."

"Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax."

"It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them."

"There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program -- your tax-dollar will go further."

"The thing generally raised on city land is taxes."

"No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction."