Quotes about Taxes

Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

The surest thing in the world is not death and taxes, it's death and eternity. Yet, we're so unconcerned.

The national defense must be provided for as well as the support of Government; but both should be accomplished as much as possible by immediate taxes, and as little as possible by loans.

He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.

Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith.

It's good to pay high taxes - you have free schools, free universities. It's a much more decent society than those where everybody pays their own way, and some people don't get anything.

taxes are not raised to carry on wars, but that wars are raised to carry on taxes

If nobody will be so kind as to become my foe, I shall need no more fleets nor armies, and shall be forced to reduce my taxes.

And a government which cannot preserve the peace is no government at all, and in that case we pay our money for nothing;

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied...and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings.

I commend the parents who are sending their children to a Catholic school, because they're making a sacrifice, and they're paying twice for their child's education: They're paying the tuition, and they're paying taxes.