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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that
would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and
enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was
bad, he should see how bad it is with representation." | |
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Unknown
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| "If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad,
he should see how it is with representation." | |
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Rush H. Limbaugh III
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| "In 1790, the nation which had fought taxation without representation
discovered that some of its citizens weren"t much happier about taxation
with representation." | |
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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| "Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for
was representation without taxation." | |
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Fletcher Knebel
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| "Taxation without representation is tyranny." | |
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James Otis
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| "Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed." | |
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Robert Anson Heinlein
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| "The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose to obtain the
largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of
hissing." | |
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Jean-Baptiste Colbert
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| "The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries
any reward." | |
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John Maynard, Baron Keynes of Tilton
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| "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income
tax." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "The politicians don"t just want your money. They want your soul.
They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent
and helpless." | |
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James Dale Davidson
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| "The power to tax involves the power to destroy." | |
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John Marshall
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| "The power to tax is not the power to destroy while this Court
sits." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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| "The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes." | |
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William Feather
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| "The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his
taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman,
pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has
paid fifteen per cent, flings himself back upon his chintz bed which has
paid twenty-two per cent, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has
paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to
death." | |
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Sydney Smith
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| "The tax collector must love poor people ? he?s creating so many of
them." | |
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Bill Vaughan
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| "There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist -
the taxidermist leaves the hide." | |
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Mortimer Caplin
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| "To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not
given to men." | |
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Edmund Burke
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| "To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection:
it is plunder." | |
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Benjamin Disraeli
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| "War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and
unsupposed circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end. It
has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes." | |
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Thomas Paine
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| "We don?t pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes." | |
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Leona Helmsley
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| "What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector?
The taxidermist takes only your skin." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "When more of the people?s sustenance is exacted through the form of
taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and
expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless
extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free
government." | |
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Stephan Grover Cleveland
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