Government Quote by Benjamin Franklin Download Open image “Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.” — Benjamin Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Government Hands Idleness Kings Politics Pride Taxes
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“In despotic governments wars are the effect of pride; but in those governments in which they become the means of taxation, they acquire thereby… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it… — Charles Adams Copy Share Image
Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A lot of people feel left out by a government that taxes too much and regulates them too heavily and seems to result in… — Mike Lee Copy Share Image
Forget death and taxes. The only sure thing is that, win or lose, Don King is counting the money. — Tim Witherspoon Copy Share Image
When taxes are too high, people go hungry. When the government is too intrusive, people lose their spirit. Act for the people's benefit. Trust… — Laozi Copy Share Image
It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Why, who cries out on pride that can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea till the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation.… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Louisiana's spicy, colorful politics have saddled our state with a reputation for tolerating lax ethical standards in government. — John Kennedy Copy Share Image
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
