Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [21-40] of 160 Tax quotesTax QuotesTax Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law.~ Napoleon Bonaparte Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.~ Bertolt Brecht The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.~ David Brinkley Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.~ Art Buchwald 'Tis impossible to be sure of anything but Death and Taxes.~ Christopher Bullock Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.~ George Burns Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them.~ William S. Burroughs If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised. ... This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.~ Salmon P. Chase The Act of Congress which we are impugning before you is communistic in its purposes and tendencies, and is defended here upon principles as communistic, socialistic - what shall I call them - populistic as ever have been addressed to any political assembly in the world.~ Joseph H. Choate So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.~ Sir Winston Churchill We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.~ Sir Winston Churchill We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.~ Hillary Clinton I will no longer pay for the destruction of my country, family, and self. Damn tyranny! Damn the Federal Reserve liars and thieves! Damn all pettifogging, oath-breaking US attorneys and judges.… I will see you all in Hell and shed my blood before I will be robbed of one more dollar to finance a national policy of treason, plunder, and corruption~ Marvin Cooley The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. The wise and correct course to follow in taxation is not to destroy those who have already secured success, but to create conditions under which everyone will have a better chance to be successful.~ Calvin Coolidge No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.~ Calvin Coolidge As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn the money to pay them.~ Calvin Coolidge Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.~ Calvin Coolidge There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.~ Davy Crockett The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State.~ Bertrand de Jouvenel But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.~ Declaration of Independence Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print