Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-09-05 Sep 5, 2003Capital punishment is when Washington comes up with a new tax.~ Van PanopoulosIf you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.~ P. J. O'RourkeI just wanted to speak to you about something from the Internal Revenue Code. It is the last sentence of section 509A of the code and it reads: 'For purposes of paragraph 3, an organization described in paragraph 2 shall be deemed to include an organization described in section 501C-4, 5, or 6, which would be described in paragraph 2 if it were an organization described in section 501C-3.' And that's just one sentence out of those fifty-seven feet of books.~ Ronald Reagan Sep 4, 2003To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the purpose of providing for the general welfare.' For the laying of taxes is the power, and the general welfare the purpose for which the power is to be exercised. They are not to lay taxes ad libitum for any purpose they please; but only to pay the debts or provide for the welfare of the Union.~ Thomas JeffersonWhen a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that an old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had only one before.~ H. L. MenckenA legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.~ Justice John MarshallAn 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.~ Justice John Marshall Sep 3, 2003Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.~ Bernard BerensonThe collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. The wise and correct course to follow in taxation is not to destroy those who have already secured success, but to create conditions under which everyone will have a better chance to be successful.~ Calvin CoolidgeThere ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.~ Davy Crockett Sep 2, 2003Man is by nature a political animal.~ AristotleWe trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.~ Gaius Petronius ArbiterThree groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.~ Richard Armey Sep 1, 2003America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.~ Jimmy CarterInjustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should to rest on inference.~ Thomas Jefferson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print