Quotes about taxes-and-taxation

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

— Bernard Berenson

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

— Peg Bracken

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

— Wernher Von Braun

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

— Edmund Burke

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

— Edmund Burke

Read my lips: no new taxes.

— George Bush

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

— Tiberius Caesar

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

— Mortimer Caplan

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

— Randolph Churchill

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.

— Nonnee Coan

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

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.

— J. B. Colbert

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

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

— Thomas Robert Dewar

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

— Duke of Prince Philip Edinburgh

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

— Albert Einstein

Every advantage has its tax.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.

— Benjamin Franklin

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Shelby Friedman

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

— Denis Healey

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

— Leona Helmsley

Only little people pay taxes.

— Leona Helmsley

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

— Doug Horton

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

— Andrew Jackson

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

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

— John Maynard Keynes

The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.

— Mackenzie King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Saul Landau

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

— Joe E. Lewis

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

— Rush Limbaugh

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

— Rush Limbaugh

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

— John Marshall

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.

— Karl Marx

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

— H. L. Mencken

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

— Olin Miller

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

— Austin O'Malley

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

— American Proverb

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

— Greek Proverb

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

— F. J. Raymond

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

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

— Will Rogers

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.

— Will Rogers

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

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

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.

— John Ruskin

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Gordon Sumner

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

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

— Themistocles

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

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

— Alexis De Tocqueville

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

— Mark Twain

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

— Mark Twain

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

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

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

— Bill Vaughan

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

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

— Charles Dudley Warner

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Margaret Mitchell