| "When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income." »Plato |
| "The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax." »Lord Thomas Dewar |
| "The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not hesita" »Thomas Jefferson |
| "The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government." »George Washington |
| "Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy." »P. J. O'Rourke |
| "Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, Trust me, they're actually being very un-American." »David Duchovny |
| "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery." »Charles Dickens |
| "Our government sprang from and was made for the people -- not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom." »Andrew Johnson |
| "President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people." »Ralph Nader |
| "The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government they have only a talent for getting and holding office." »H.L. Mencken |
| "It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating." »Oscar Wilde |
| "These days an income is something you can't live without--or within." »Tom Wilson |
| "The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect." »Sam Ewig |
| "It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity." »Alexander Hamilton |
| "There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income." »Edmund Wilson |
| "Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
| "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of." »Jane Austen |
| "First secure an independent income, then practice virtue." »Greek Proverb |
| "There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail." »Logan Pearsall Smith |
| "It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped." »Hubert Humphrey |
| "The chief problem with lower income farmers is poverty." »Nelson Rockefeller |
| "The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax." »Albert Einstein |
| "government, is the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government." »MacKenzie King |
| "The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has." »Will Rogers |
| "My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income." »Errol Flynn |
| "income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today." »Herman Wouk |
| "In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself." »Alexander Hamilton |
| "All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income." »Samuel Butler |
| "The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale." »Arthur C. Clarke |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
