taxes quotes

Neither will it be, that a people overlaid with taxes should ever become valiant and martial.

- Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
  Essays, no.29,'Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms'.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

- George Herbert Walker Bush
  Accepting the Republican presidential nomination, 19  Aug.

Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed. See also Franklin 335:18.

- Daniel Defoe
  History of the Devil, bk.2, ch.6.

'It was as true,'said Mr Barkis,'†as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.'

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^50  David Copperfield, ch.21.

This President will go down in historyas the only President who raised taxes before he tookoffice and cut spending after he left office.

- Bob (RobertJoseph) Dole
  On Bill Clinton's retroactive tax increases and promises of future spending cuts. In the Los  Angeles Times,16 Feb.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. See Defoe 258:25.

- Anne Frank
  Letter to  Jean Baptiste Le Roy,13 Nov.

We don't pay taxes.Only the little people pay taxes.

- Leona (Mindy) ne  e Rosenthal Helmsley
  Remark to a former hotel housekeeper which became a byword of her trial and conviction for tax fraud. Reported in the NewYork Times,13  Jul.

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!

- Margaret Mitchell
  Scarlett O'Hara. Gone  with  the Wind, ch.38.