The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes.
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Anonymous
The power to tax involves the power to destroy.
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John Marshall
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.
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Jean Baptiste Colbert
The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.
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John S. Coleman
Next to being shot at and missed nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.
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F. J. Raymond
More Quotes By John Marshall
.. . a constitution, intended toendure for ages to come, andconsequently, to be adapted to thevarious crises of human affairs.
The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.
It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.
