“ The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing. ”
- Jean Baptiste Colbert- Copy
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“ Patrick Henry railed against taxation without representation. He should see it with representation. ”
- Saul Landau- Copy
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“ Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them! ”
- Margaret Mitchell- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing. ”
- Terry Pratchett- Copy
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“ The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try. ”
- Gordon Sumner- Copy
- 4K
“ The taxpayer; that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn't have to take a civil service examination. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
- 551
“ 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. ”
- Vivien Kellems- Copy
- 290
“ No statesmen ever will find it worth his pains, to tax our labor and excise our brain. ”
- Randolph Churchill- Copy
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“ The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 2.3K
“ The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. ”
- Andrew Jackson- Copy
- 148
“ If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation. ”
- Rush Limbaugh- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- William Cobbett- Copy
- 508
“ Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed. ”
- Bernard Berenson- Copy
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“ Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
- 1.2K
“ The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms. Armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes. ”
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus- Copy
- 95
“ Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents. ”
- Peg Bracken- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax. ”
- Thomas Robert Dewar- Copy
- 2.1K
“ It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them. ”
- Tiberius Caesar- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty. ”
- Stephen King- Copy
- 2.5K
“ There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program — your tax-dollar will go further. ”
- Wernher Von Braun- Copy
- 343
“ Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 290
“ I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Taxes, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
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