Taxation quotes

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◆ The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance

- Thomas Jefferson100

◆ The tax collector must love poor people - he's creating so many of them

- Bill Vaughn99

◆ He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer

- William Proxmire99

◆ We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle

- Winston Churchill99

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

- Margaret Mitchell99

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

- Plato99

◆ Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

- Charles F Kettering99

◆ The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing

- Jean Baptiste Colbert99

◆ Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces

- Terry Pratchett99

◆ For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson99

◆ The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor

- William Cobbett99

◆ The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

- Herman Wouk99

◆ All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people

- Henry Brooks Adams99

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

- Andrew Jackson99

◆ I like the power given the Legislature to levy taxes, and for that reason solely approve of the greater house being chosen by the people directly

- Thomas Jefferson99