Levied Taxes Quotes & Sayings

It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. The funds that a government spends for whatever purposes are levied by taxation. And taxes are paid because the taxpayers are afraid of offering resistance to the tax gatherers. They know that any disobedience or resistance is hopeless. As long as this is the state of affairs, the government is able to collect the money that it wants to spend. — Ludwig Von Mises

The best taxes are such as are levied upon consumptions, especially those of luxury; because such taxes are least felt by the people. They seem, in some measure, voluntary; since a man may choose how far he will use the commodity: They naturally produce sobriety and frugality, if judiciously imposed: And being confounded with the natural price of the commodity, they are scarcely perceived by the consumers. Their only disadvantage is that they are expensive in the levying. — David Hume

When I get married, I want to be really married — Audrey Hepburn

In a system where the cost of care is hidden by taxes levied on your income, property, and business activities, it is no wonder why so many Americans rely on Medicaid to pay their long term care. — Michael Burgess

If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation. — Charles Caleb Colton

They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice. — Donald O'Connor

Dashes and disappointments are not canonical Scripture. — Samuel Rutherford

Like water, be gentle and strong. Be gentle enough to follow the natural paths of the earth and strong enough to rise up and reshape the world — Brenda Peterson

Protest can be organized through social media, but nothing is real that does not end on the streets. If — Timothy Snyder

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people — Henry Adams

The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied ... and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings. — Thomas Jefferson

Grace is when you know you're loved exactly as you are. — Rob Bell

Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money taxes, levied on land and otherwise, which are collected by government from the subjects. — Leo Tolstoy

Mystical experiences nearly always lead one to a belief that some aspect of consciousness is imperishable. In a Buddhist metaphor the consciousness of the individual is like a flame that burns through the night. It is not the same flame over time, yet neither is it another flame. — Marilyn Ferguson

The problem was that the government's appetite for money was so great that taxes soon needed to be levied on the middle class, and from there it kept trickling down. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Underlying all this activity - in the customhouses, on the wharves, in every place of business - were numbers. Merchants measured out their wares and negotiated prices; customs officers calculated taxes to be levied on imports; scribes and stewards prepared ships' manifests, recording the values in long columns using Roman numerals. They would have put their writing implements to one side and used either their fingers or a physical abacus to perform the additions, then picked up pen and parchment once again to enter the subtotals from each page on a final page at the end. With no record of the computation itself, if anyone questioned the answer, the entire process would have to be repeated. — Keith J. Devlin

The right thing at a wrong time is a wrong thing. — Joshua Harris

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

What was worse, we asked among ourselves, to sit and wait for our own deaths with proper somber faces? Or to choose our own happiness? — Amy Tan

the qualities ascribed to the cowboy are identical to those of the English knight.18 — Denis Hayes

The assistant commander at any post is supposed to be a ruthless son of a bitch. — Tom Clancy

Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. — Robert A. Heinlein

Fought their duels on Greek territory, conscripted Greek men, requisitioned Greek crops and gold, levied twenty years' taxes in two, and left the cities destitute. — Will Durant

I've always done the safest thing, which is to assume that it's going to feel like that, to assume that you're going to feel like a freshman in a group of seniors - if you expect the worst, then it's never going to be that bad. — Janina Gavankar

In Ohio the seasons are theatrical. — Toni Morrison

There's no shame about any honest calling; don't be afraid of soiling your hands, there's plenty of soap to be had. — Charles Spurgeon