A list of the best taxes and taxation quotes and sayings, including the names of each speaker or author when available. This list is sorted by popularity, so only the most famous taxes and taxation quotes are at the top. The authors of these historic taxes and taxation quotes are displayed...
Quotation mavens like Barry Popik havenoted that Franklin wasn’t the firstperson to write something about the inevitability of death and taxes. For example, in 1726, Daniel Defoe wrote in his bookThe Political History of the Devil: “Things as certain as death and taxes can be more firmly ...
Earning money would be a pleasure — if it wasn't so taxing. ~20,000 Quips & Quotes, Evan Esar, 1968 But, sir, we are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it... Sir, if you would levy ...