Quotes
Quotes about Tax
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.
Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.
In how many lives does Love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera.
I'm proud of paying taxes. The only thing is--I could be just as proud for half the money.
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the Arsenal, and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.
...it may fairly be doubted if any political tyranny ever imposed on its people such a fear, such a longing for freedom, such a paralysis of the spirit, as disease. I doubt if the average Englishman felt himself as much oppressed by Charles I as by the plague; or if any colonial American was as much in dread of taxation without representation as of smallpox. And it may reasonably be contended that Walter Reed and William Crawford Gorgas brought to man freedom in a more happy sense and in a larger measure than any military or political leader.
The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to "help.".
Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
The more productive people are, the more governments can tax and confiscate. So the more productive people are, the more costly it is for governments to kill them. Evidence indicates that governments respond to this economic incentive.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.
Why, who cries out on pride That can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea Till that the weary very means do ebb?
I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.
Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year.
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
It's a nice bonus but, you know, I have to pay taxes too. (after winning the Grand Slam Cup.)
No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours and excise our brains.
The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes.
Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves from the overtaxed.
Taxes are the sinews of the state.
I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.
Death and taxes are inevitable.
Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.
