Quotes on Tax Day

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.

Indoors or out, no one relaxes _x000D_ In March, that month of wind and taxes, _x000D_ The wind will presently disappear, _x000D_ The taxes last us all the year.

No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute.

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

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.