Taxation Quotes

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Plato

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

Margaret Mitchell

Indoors or out, no one relaxesIn March, that month of wind and taxes,The wind will presently disappear,The taxes last us all year.

Ogden Nash, Thar She Blows (1949

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

John Marshall

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

Randolph Churchill

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

F. J. Raymond

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.

Arthur Godfrey

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

Stephen King

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

Prince Philip Edinburgh

It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that excessive revenues are obtained. Monarchy is well calculated to ensure this end. It is the popery of government; a thing kept up to amuse the ignorant, and quiet them into taxes.

Thomas Paine

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

Themistocles

The officers of Congress, may come upon you now, fortified with all the terrors of paramount federal authority. Excisemen taxmen may come in multitudes; for the limitation of their numbers no man knows. They may, unless the general government be restrained ... go into your cellars and rooms, and search, ransack, and measure, everything you eat, drink, and wear.

Patrick Henry

The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages capital accumulation and distorts, unbalances, and shrinks production. Total real wealth and income is made smaller than it would otherwise be. On net balance there is more poverty rather than less.

Henry Hazlitt

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

Henry David Thoreau

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.

Noel Coward

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

Gordon Sumner

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

Wernher Von Braun

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

Olin Miller

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

Mortimer Caplan

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

John Maynard Keynes