(105 quotes found)
“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 Churchill
“The tax collector must love poor people - he's creating so many of them”
Bill Vaughn
“When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.”
Plato
“For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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 Jefferson
“The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.”
Andrew Jackson
“Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them”
Margaret Mitchell
“Inflation is taxation without legislation”
Milton Friedman
“The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.”
Barry Goldwater
“Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.”
Fletcher Knebel
