Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2007-04-17 Apr 17, 2007A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement.~ Thomas JeffersonI think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.~ Thomas JeffersonThe mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.~ Thomas Jefferson Apr 16, 2007The best way to put more money in people's wallets is to leave it there in the first place.~ Edwin FeulnerWhen 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. MenckenHow is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich -- or just out of the poor, as usual?~ Will Rogers Apr 13, 2007It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.~ Benjamin FranklinThere ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.~ Davy CrockettI know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.~ Frederick Douglass Apr 12, 2007From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.~ Karl MarxThere is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.~ Christopher Darlington MorleyHere is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.~ Franklin D. Roosevelt Apr 11, 2007A liberal's like to be laxWhen recommending a tax.With a glut in his heartAnd his brain low a quart,He will give youthe shirts off our backs.~ F. R. DuplantierTo compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.~ Thomas JeffersonThe question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about 'social justice' all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get re-elected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice.~ Thomas Sowell Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print