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Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Compania General de Tabacos de Filipinas v. Collector of Internal Revenue · 1927

★ 6.9

Scripture · Religious literature

Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.

Matthew 22:21 · 60

★ 5.5

Comedy special · Comedy (stand up)

You know what’s fucked up about taxes? You don’t even pay taxes. They take tax. You get your check, money gone. That ain’t a payment, that’s a jack.

Bigger & Blacker · 1999

★ 5.5

Speech · Political speech

Read my lips: no new taxes.

George H.W. Bush

1988 Republican convention speech · 1988

★ 5.4

Economic literature

There is no art which one government sooner learns of another, than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

The Wealth of Nations · 1776

★ 3.9

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

The power to tax involves the power to destroy.

McCulloch v. Maryland · 1819

★ 3.7

Play · Comedic play

'Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but death and taxes.

Christopher Bullock

1716

★ 3.6

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

1761

★ 3.6

Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literature

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Plato, Republic · 375 BC

★ 2.4

It should be known that at the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of a dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.

1377

★ 2.0

Only the little people pay taxes.

The New York Times · 1989

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

Taxation and representation are inseparable... Whatever is a man's own, is absolutely his own; no man hath a right to take it from him withough his consent either expressed by himself or representative; whoever attempts to do it, attempts an injury; whoever does it, commits a robbery; he throws down and destroys the distinction between liberty and slavery.

Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

1766

★ 1.8

Legal opinion · Legal writing

Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury.

Helvering v. Gregory · 1934

★ 1.8

Speech · Political speech

No more revenue ought to be collected from the people than the amount necessary to defray the expenses of a wise, economical, and efficient administration of the Government.

1857

★ 1.1