Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calvin Trillin

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

Adam Smith

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

Albert Camus

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Dick Spring

We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax.

Tim Pape

Taxation without representation? No, they're getting taxed, and they're getting represented.

Margaret Thatcher

Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities.

Herbert Hoover

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

George Will

Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time. Although some taxation is necessary, all taxation diminishes freedom.

Zubin Mehta

Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.

Tim Pawlenty

The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen.

John C. Calhoun

There is no direct and immediate connection between the individual citizens of a state and the general government. The relation between them is through the state. The Union is a union of states as communities and not a union of individuals.

Nick Clegg

Liberal Democrats in government will not follow the last Labour government by sounding the retreat on the protection of civil liberties in the United Kingdom. It continues to be essential that our civil liberties are safeguarded, and that the state is not given the powers to snoop on its citizens at will.

Greg Thompson

The Americans will say they have the right to innocent passage, but it's complicated by the fact that this is extremely dangerous cargo and there is extreme risk to our citizens and to the environment,

Jane Hoffa

The application goes into the State, then they're on the waiting list to take the test. It's a slow process, and it should not be. A lot of people would have become citizens much faster if the process moved along.

Carol Bruce

We need to have experienced positive leadership in offices. We've done a lot for the town and we're proud of that and I think the citizens will see that and come out to support us.

Richard Boucher

We have worked closely with Mexican authorities to take the appropriate steps to ensure the safety and the security of U.S. citizens in Mexico,

Alberta Stima

We have to worry about the weather. Most of our volunteers are senior citizens and they walk very gingerly.

Kent Cooper

Because we can't see a lot of their activities, people wonder how big they are and how active. There is a hazy line between indirect and direct involvement in elections.

Drew Carey

I have a position of indirect respect and oblique power.

Anais Nin

Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.

J. I. Packer

The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.

Sadakichi Robbins

The real surprise is that none of the usual indirect bidders turned up. Maybe they were scared away by the jump in direct bidding (Wednesday).

Francis Crick

It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code is indeed a triplet code.