Quotes about taxes and taxation

"Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed."

Berenson, Bernard on taxes and taxation   

"Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents."

Bracken, Peg on taxes and taxation   

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

Braun, Wernher Von on taxes and taxation   

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

Burke, Edmund on taxes and taxation   

"To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men."

Burke, Edmund on taxes and taxation   

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"Read my lips: no new taxes."

Bush, George on taxes and taxation   

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

Caesar, Tiberius on taxes and taxation   

"There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist -- the taxidermist leaves the hide."

Caplan, Mortimer on taxes and taxation   

"No statesmen ever will find it worth his pains, to tax our labor and excise our brain."

Churchill, Randolph on taxes and taxation   

"Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right he'll go to the poor house."

Coan, Nonnee on taxes and taxation   

"Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt."

Cobbett, William on taxes and taxation   

"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing."

Colbert, J. B. on taxes and taxation   

"I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age -- which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday."

Coward, Noel on taxes and taxation   

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert on taxes and taxation   

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

Edinburgh, Prince Philip, Duke of on taxes and taxation   

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

Einstein, Albert on taxes and taxation
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"Every advantage has its tax."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on taxes and taxation   

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

Franklin, Benjamin on taxes and taxation
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"There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."

Franklin, Benjamin on taxes and taxation   

"Income tax time is when you test your powers of deduction."

Friedman, Shelby on taxes and taxation   

"I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as proud for half the money."

Godfrey, Arthur on taxes and taxation   

"The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall."

Healey, Denis on taxes and taxation   

"We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes."

Helmsley, Leona on taxes and taxation   

"Only little people pay taxes."

Helmsley, Leona on taxes and taxation   

"When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. -- they'll find something."

Horton, Doug on taxes and taxation   

"The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality."

Jackson, Andrew on taxes and taxation   

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"Our tax law is a 1, 598-page hydra-headed monster and I'm going to attack and attack and attack until I have ironed out every fault in it."

Kellems, Vivien on taxes and taxation   

"The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward."

Keynes, John Maynard on taxes and taxation   

"The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today."

King, Mackenzie on taxes and taxation   

"The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty."

King, Stephen on taxes and taxation   

"Patrick Henry railed against taxation without representation. He should see it with representation."

Landau, Saul on taxes and taxation
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"The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love."

Lewis, Joe E. on taxes and taxation
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"If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation."

Limbaugh, Rush on taxes and taxation
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"No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity."

Limbaugh, Rush on taxes and taxation   

"The power to tax is the power to destroy."

Marshall, John on taxes and taxation
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"Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation."

Marx, Karl on taxes and taxation   

"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."

Mencken, H. L. on taxes and taxation   

"Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam."

Miller, Olin on taxes and taxation   

"Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!"

Mitchell, Margaret on taxes and taxation   

"In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin."

O'Malley, Austin on taxes and taxation