Motivational Quotes

Taxes and taxation

The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms. Armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Taxes and taxation

1.

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

2.

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

Healey, Denis

3.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

Rogers, Will

4.

It's getting so that children have to be educated to realize that Damn and Taxes: are two separate words.

5.

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

Churchill, Randolph

6.

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

Berenson, Bernard

7.

Today's dime is really a dollar with all the taxes deducted.

8.

A fool and his money are soon parted. The rest of us wait for tax time.

9.

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.

Raymond, F. J.

10.

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

Friedman, Shelby

11.

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

Burke, Edmund

12.

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

Caplan, Mortimer

13.

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

Landau, Saul

14.

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

Miller, Olin

15.

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

16.

In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.

Voltaire

17.

Only little people pay taxes.

Helmsley, Leona

18.

Of all our natural resources, the first one to be exhausted may be the taxpayer.

19.

The tax collector must love poor people. He is creating so many of them.

Vaughan, Bill

20.

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.

21.

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

Bracken, Peg

22.

Taxes and golf are alike, you drive your heart out for the green, and then end up in the hole.

23.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

24.

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

Proverb, American

25.

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

Edinburgh, Prince Philip, Duke of

26.

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

Helmsley, Leona

27.

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

Horton, Doug

28.

The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.

Sumner, Gordon

29.

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

30.

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

31.

The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.

King, Mackenzie

32.

Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf.

Rogers, Will

33.

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

34.

The taxpayer; that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn't have to take a civil service examination.

Reagan, Ronald

35.

The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms. Armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

36.

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

Twain, Mark

37.

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

Braun, Wernher Von

38.

It is getting harder and harder to support the government in the style to which it has become accustomed.

39.

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.

Rogers, Will

40.

Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.

Proverb, Greek

41.

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

Twain, Mark

42.

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

43.

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

King, Stephen

44.

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

45.

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

Mencken, H. L.

46.

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

O'Malley, Austin

47.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

Bush, George

48.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

49.

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

50.

The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.

Lewis, Joe E.