The taxpayer: that’s someone who works for the federal government, but doesn’t have to take a civil service examination.

If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead–if you strike oil.

You must pay taxes. But there’s no law that says you gotta leave a tip.

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

The reality is, this is part of our tax code. The man’s a genius. He knows how to operate the tax code to the benefit of the people he’s serving.

What we’re doing is not rebellious. What we’re doing is in accordance with the Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land.

I’m basically a libertarian. I’m a conservative on economic matters, and I’m a social liberal.

I didn’t do anything wrong. I’m proud of my career and the job I did for this country.

But the law is not a breast that fills itself with milk. Nor are the lacteal veins of the law supplied with milk from a source outside the society. Nothing can enter the public treasury for the benefit of one citizen or one class unless another citizen or other classes have been forced to send it in. If every person draws from the treasury the amount that he has put in, it is true, then, that the law plunders nobody. But this procedure does nothing for the persons who have no money. It does not promote equality of income. The law can be an instrument of equalization only when it takes from some persons and gives to others, other persons. When the law does this, it is an instrument of plunder.