10 quotes found
“The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes.”
“The power to tax involves the power to destroy.”
“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.”
“The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.”
“Next to being shot at and missed nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.”
“The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. 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.”
“Governments last as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.”
“There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed . . . And all went to be taxed everyone into his own city.”
“The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.”
