Quote by Joseph McKenna

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

— Chris Matthews

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.

— Alain de Botton

When, as an individual, you are not paying taxes, it is evasion. As a corporate, it is legal shrewdness or tax engineering.

— Jose Angel Gurria

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

— James Monroe

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair.

— Doc Hastings

The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary.

— David Hume

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

— Terry Pratchett

“When a man pays a tax, he knows that the public necessity requires it, and therefore feels a pride in discharging his duty; but…

— Thomas Paine

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

The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent.

— Will Rogers

Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.

— Samuel Freeman Miller