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#1

“Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.”
― Frank Herbert

tags: politics

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#2

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
― Margaret Thatcher

tags: entitlement, government

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#3

“Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

tags: cthulhu

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#4

“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

tags: condescending, income-tax, pay, taxes, tyranny

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#5

“One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.”
― Ron Paul

tags: constitution, founding-fathers, illegal-taxes, income-tax, politics, ron-paul, tax, taxes

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#6

“We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: taxes

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#7

“...but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, LL.D ...: Comprising a Series of Letters on Miscellaneous, Literary, and Political Subjects ...

tags: 1789, certainty, taxes

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#8

“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

tags: anarchy, ancap, coercion, collectivism, countries, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, mafia, nations, socialism, statism, taxation, taxes, theft, thugs, voluntaryism

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#9

“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: government, ideas, taxes

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#10

“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 always votes for the canidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy--to be followed by a dictatorship.”
― Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee

tags: freedom, law, taxes, welfare

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#11

“No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.”
― Rush Limbaugh

tags: economy, government, prosperity, taxes, taxing

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#12

“Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

tags: bureaucracy, government, taxes

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#13

“You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: business, economy, taxes, taxing

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#14

“The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
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― Paula Poundstone

tags: death, sin, taxes

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#15

“The power to tax is the power to destroy.”
― John Marshall

tags: economy, taxes, taxing

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#16

“This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)”
― Albert Einstein

tags: taxes

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#17

“You don't pay taxes-they take taxes.”
― Chris Rock

tags: taxes

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#18

“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

tags: freedom, happiness, liberty, life, politics, taxes

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#19

“There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes.”
― Ragnar Tornquist

tags: art, death, tax, taxes

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#20

“The taxpayer is the new permanent underclass.”
― Andrew Wilkow

tags: taxes

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#21

“A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.”
― Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine

tags: education, freedom, libertarian, liberty, political, statism, taxes, totalitarianism

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#22

“Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

tags: taxes

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#23

“By today’s standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum. His actual impact on their personal lives was trivial. He had arbitrary power over them in law and in principle but in fact it was seldom exercised. If you compare his rule with that of today’s U.S. Government you have to wonder why we celebrate our independence..”
― Joseph Sobran

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#24

“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.”
― John Marshall

tags: constitution, law, taxes

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#25

“A penny saved is worth two pennies earned . . . after taxes. ”
― Randy Thurman

tags: budgeting, money, savings, taxes

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#26

“Even taxpayers have rights!”
― Beric J. Croome, Taxpayers' Rights in South Africa

tags: south-africa, taxes, taxpayers-rights

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#27

“Let your voice be heard, whether or not it is to the taste of every
jack-in-office who may be obstructing the traffic. By all means, render unto
Caesar that which is Caesar's -- but this does not necessarily include
everything that he says is his.”
― Denis Johnston

tags: taxes

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#28

“So you and the lovely Agent Scully are going down to investigate?' Frohike said, sounding hopeful.
'Yeah, we leave for Cancun tomorrow.'
'Our tax dollars at work,' Langly snorted.
'I'd love to see Agent Scully with a healthy tropical tan,' Frohike said.
'Down, Frohike,' Mulder said.”
― Kevin J. Anderson, The X-Files: Ruins

tags: frohike, langley, mulder, scully, taxes, the-lone-gunmen, x-files

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#29

“War is the biggest tax hike ever; if this is
properly understood many would stop
warring. - On War and Personal Finances”
― Lamine Pearlheart, To Life from the Shadows

tags: taxation, taxes, war-and-conflict, war-and-peace, war-and-propaganda, war-and-society, war-quotations, war-quotes, wars

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#30

“The government you elect is the government you deserve.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: aristotle, california, democracy, government, socialism, taxes, tyranny, united-states

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