Folly Quote by Benjamin Franklin

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

The taxes of government are heavy enough, but not so heavy as the taxes we lay upon ourselves.

— Orville Dewey

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to…

— Benjamin Franklin

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories, in tax-sold…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.

— Jill Lepore

We spend millions of hours doing taxes and spend so much money doing our taxes. It should be very simple.

— Gary Cohn

It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going…

— Anonymous

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

A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal eÇŒoyments, it only shifts expenses from…

— Antoine Destutt de Tracy

A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal enjoyments, it only shifts expenses from…

— Antoine Destutt de Tracy

I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've ever paid in my life.…

— Howard Warren Buffett