Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.

Bernard Berenson
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  1. The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes. - Anonymous

  2. The power to tax involves the power to destroy. - John Marshall

  3. The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing. - Jean Baptiste Colbert

  4. The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away. - John S. Coleman

  5. Next to being shot at and missed nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund. - F. J. Raymond

More Quotes By Bernard Berenson
  1. A complete life may be one ending in so full identification with the non-self that there is no self to die.

  2. Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

  3. I wonder whether Art has a higher function than to make me feel appreciate and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

  4. As I got warmed up and felt perfectly at home in talk I heard myself boasting lying exaggerating. Oh not deliberately far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk and speak only after carefully considering whether...

  5. Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people if not the eagerness the passion for the same thing?

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