Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
~ Bernard Berenson

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

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

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
~ Edmund Burke

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

Read my lips: no new taxes.
~ George Bush

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
~ Tiberius Caesar

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

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

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

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
~ William Cobbett

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.
~ J. B. Colbert

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age -- which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.
~ Noel Coward

Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax.
~ Thomas Robert Dewar

All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.
~ Prince Philip Edinburgh

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
~ Albert Einstein

Every advantage has its tax.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
~ Benjamin Franklin

We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.
~ Benjamin Franklin

Income tax time is when you test your powers of deduction.
~ Shelby Friedman