Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.

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

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

No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.

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

In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms. Armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.