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Favorite Tax Quotes When it comes to taxes, everyone has an opinion and famous quotes aren't excluded. Here are a few well-worded historical tax quotes collected by the Media Relations staff. * * *
1. "Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.'' Oliver
Wendell Holmes Jr.
2. "The power of taxing people and their property is
essential to the very existence of government.'' James Madison
3. "To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be
wise, is not given to men." Edmund Burke
4. "The complexity of our [tax] code in the main is not
there because of mischief. Most of it is there in the effort to do more
perfect justice.'' Russell B. Long
5. "I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in
New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a
cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.'' Lewis H. Lapham
6. "No government can exist without taxation. This money
must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of
levying so as not to oppress.'' Frederick the Great
7. "Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but
seldom forgotten.'' anonymous
8. "The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income
tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.'' Arthur C. Clarke
9. "Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really
quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.'' F. J. Raymond
10. A tax loophole is "something that benefits the other
guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.'' Russell B Long
11. "Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except
when filling out an income tax form.' Laurence J. Peter
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