Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Cronkite

To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. ... It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.

Willard Van Orman Quine

We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.

Wendell Berry

If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow involve within itself a ceremonious generosity toward the wilderness of natural force and instinct. The farm must yield a place to the forest, not as a wood lot, or even as a necessary agricultural principle but as a sacred grove - a place where the Creation is let alone, to serve as instruction, example, refuge; a place for people to go, free of work and presumption, to let themselves alone. (pg. 125, The Body and the Earth)

Ovid

Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.

Ovid

Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.

Poul Anderson

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

B. C. Forbes

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

Barbara Hepworth

One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.

Robert Orben

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

James Madison

The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.

Frank Chodorov

Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.

Lyndon B. Johnson

In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.

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.

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.

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 Washington

No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.

Warren Buffett

I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.

Newt Gingrich

EITC is an invitation to fraud.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Robert Soper

The track has its own taxes that are distinct. It's not 55 percent, that's for certain.

Donald Trump

Donald Trump have proposed an approach that has a $4 billion tax benefit for your family.

Tony Blair

All the evidence here, for example, in Britain, is that migrants, particularly from the rest of Europe, who come here contribute far more in taxes.

Tim Kaine

Richard Nixon released tax returns when he was under audit.

Rand Paul

The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.