The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.

No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and since the Filipino is regarded as a fit citizen when he is asked to pay taxes or shed his blood to defend the fatherland, why must this fitness be denied him when the question arises of granting him some right?

Only little people pay taxes.

Income taxes are the most imaginative fiction written today.

The wages of sin are unreported.

The rich aren't like us; they pay less taxes.

Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to flay it.

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

There is apparently nowhere a workable majority in the representative assemblies for making the specific cuts in expenditure which could bring down the taxes, and in election after election the people vote into power representatives who are as unable as they are unwilling to do anything about it.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

Aside from sending someone to war or to prison, government s ability to make people involuntarily give over their money is its strongest exercise of authority over private citizens and their institutions.

The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.

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

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

The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.

Suppose we had to pay taxes on what we think we're worth?