“ The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing. ”
- Jean Baptiste Colbert- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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“ In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin. ”
- Austin O’Malley- Copy
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“ Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them! ”
- Margaret Mitchell- Copy
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“ The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ We should not be cutting taxes by borrowing,... We should be cutting taxes by reducing the level of spending and that's an issue that I think is critically on the table. ”
- Alan Greenspan- Copy
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“ I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me. ”
- Maurice Maeterlinck- Copy
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“ Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
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“ The American colonies, all know, were greatly opposed to taxation without representation. They were also, a less celebrated quality, equally opposed to taxation with representation. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
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“ Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice asonerous a duty. ”
- John Selden- Copy
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“ Take up the White Man's burden — send forth the best ye breed — go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
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“ What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent. ”
- Giuseppe Mazzini- Copy
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“ The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ No statesmen ever will find it worth his pains, to tax our labor and excise our brain. ”
- Randolph Churchill- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Patrick Henry railed against taxation without representation. He should see it with representation. ”
- Saul Landau- Copy
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“ The taxpayer; that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn't have to take a civil service examination. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
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“ The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try. ”
- Gordon Sumner- Copy
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“ The last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing. ”
- Terry Pratchett- Copy
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