4th of july Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments

— Benjamin Franklin

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

— Benjamin Franklin

We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local…

— Theresa May

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

My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.

— Iain Duncan Smith

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

“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

Over the centuries, the country has looked on as Parliament has faced historic decisions. Even in the most challenging of times, we have pulled…

— Andrea Leadsom

I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales,…

— Richard Cobden

Parliaments are the great lie of our time.

— Konstantin Pobedonostsev