The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

~ Albert Einstein.

Read my lips. No new taxes!

~ George Bush

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The power to tax involves the power to destroy.

~ John Marshall

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

 ~ Edmund Burke

He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes."

~ H. E. Martz

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

~ John Maynard Keynes

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

~ Plato

Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves from the overtaxed.

~ Bernard Berenson

Taxes are the sinews of the state.

~ Cicero

I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.

~ Arthur Godfrey

The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes.

~ Anonymous

Death and taxes are inevitable.

~ Thomas C. Haliburton

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.

~ F. J. Raymond