Since today is tax day!

Unnecessary taxation is unjust taxation.
- Abram Stevens Hewitt, Democratic Platform of 1884

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
- John Maynard Keynes

The power to tax involves the power to destroy.
- John C. Marshall, in the case "McCulloch v. Maryland"

But in this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. (Mais dans ce monde, il n’y a rien d’assure que la mort et les impôst.)
- Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Leroy, 1789