Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
~ Bernard Berenson - [Taxes and Taxation]

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents.
~ Peg Bracken - [Taxes and Taxation]

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program -- your tax-dollar will go further.
~ Wernher Von Braun - [Taxes and Taxation]

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
~ Edmund Burke - [Taxes and Taxation]

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
~ Edmund Burke - [Taxes and Taxation]

Read my lips: no new taxes.
~ George Bush - [Taxes and Taxation]

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
~ Tiberius Caesar - [Taxes and Taxation]

There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist -- the taxidermist leaves the hide.
~ Mortimer Caplan - [Taxes and Taxation]

No statesmen ever will find it worth his pains, to tax our labor and excise our brain.
~ Randolph Churchill - [Taxes and Taxation]

Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right he'll go to the poor house.
~ Nonnee Coan - [Taxes and Taxation]