Civic duty Quote by Alain de Botton

Paying tax is not a punishment. It's a responsibility.

— Chris Matthews

Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not…

— Alfred de Musset

Everybody should pay taxes.

— Thomas Peterffy

I want paying taxes to feel like the accomplishment of a civic duty.

— Hank Green

The payment of taxes is an obvious and insistent duty, and its sanction is usually punitive.

— Joseph McKenna

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

— Frank Chodorov

My view is that taxation ought to be based upon ability to pay.

— Michael Madigan

No sane person enjoys paying tax... money, after all, is a very nice thing to have. But it's the price we all pay for…

— Robert Rinder

It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.

— Jon Corzine

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

— Terry Pratchett

The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of…

— Calvin Coolidge