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Quotes about Taxes

It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.
— Will Rogers
When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.
— Tony Campolo
The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.
— Ronald Reagan
We've seen an economy stifled by more taxes, more regulation, a war on coal and a failing health care reform come to be known as Obamacare and the American people know that we need to make a change.
— Mike Pence
First governor in Arkansas history to ever lower taxes.
— Mike Huckabee
In my home state of Indiana we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced budgets, low taxes.
— Mike Pence
Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.
— Walter Mondale
But being ruined by taxes is not the worst you have to fear. What security would you have for your lives? How can any of you be sure you would have the free enjoyment of your religion long? Would you put your religion in the power of any set of men living? Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fail of course.
— Alexander Hamilton
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.
— James Madison
I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.
— Will Rogers
Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
— Mark Twain