“Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice
“The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.”
-James Madison, U.S. President
“To tax and toplease, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”
– Edmund Burke, 18th Century Irish polrtical philosopher and British statesman
“I am proud to be peying taxes in the United States. The only thing is- Icould be just as proud for half tha money.
-Arthur Godfrey, entertainer
“People who complain about taxes can be divided into two classes. men and women.”
-Unknown
“No government can exist without taxation. This money must necessarily be levied on the people, and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.”
-Frederick the Great, 18th Century Prussian king
“Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood. but seldom forgotten.”
-Lord Bramwell, 19th Century English jurist
“The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.”
-Arthur C. Clarke, author
“Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.”
-F. J. Raymond, humorist
A tax loophole is “something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.”
-Russell B. Long, U.S. Senator
“Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form.”
-Laurence J. Peter, author
“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”
-Albert Einstein, physicist
“Taxation with representation ain’t so hot either.”
– Gerald Barzan. humorist
“Where there is an <ncome tax. the just man wm pey more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.”
-Plato
“Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than goff.”
-Will Rogers, humorist
