"Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them."
- Margaret Mitchell
"They're so broke that they've actually cut essential services. In many places, they've cut policemen, because, who the fuck needs them? Or firemen, son of a bitch, it's much more fun watching somethin..."
- Lewis Black
"Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness... but only when you pay your taxes? That means your freedom is rented, leased, & not unalienable."
- Steve Maraboli
"The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling."
- Paula Poundstone
"There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes."
- Ragnar Tørnquist
"A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state."
- Isabel Paterson
"Every culture has some ritual for joining two people together and making them stay that way, and ours is giving tax breaks."
- Bauvard
"Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes."
- Eileen Wilks
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
- Frédéric Bastiat
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the people discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority a..."
- Alexander Fraser Tytler