"Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old."
– Edmund Burke
“Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.”
– William Cobbett
"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing."
- Attributed to J. B. Colbert
"Death and taxes are inevitable."
- Haliburton
"Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!"
– Margaret Mitchell
"Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund."
– F. J. Raymond
