Impose Taxes Quotes

#1. There was no measure that required greater caution or more severe scrutiny than one to impose taxes or raise a loan, be the form what it may. I hold that government has no right to do either, except when the public service makes it imperiously necessary, and then only to the extent that it requires.

John C. Calhoun

#2. Let the emperor make war on heaven; let him lead heaven captive in his triumph; let him put guards on heaven; let him impose taxes on heaven! He cannot ... He gets his sceptre where he first got his humanity; his power where he got the breath of life.

Tertullian

#3. To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

James Monroe

#4. We tax air passengers like cigarettes and alcohol - we impose sin taxes on travellers.

Gordon Bethune

#5. But I've always believed that Christine Cagney shouldn't be played past a certain age.

Sharon Gless

#6. Love is the distance between reality and pain.

Robyn Hitchcock

#7. The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.

Billy Bragg

#8. But I will only be able to claim it if I am offered it. Tell me, Dr. Blevens, in your opinion, is there a limit to how much knowledge one person is allowed to accumulate? Have I reached my quota?

Robin Oliveira

#9. [I listen to] "Uptown Funk", Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress - I listen to that.

Viola Davis

#10. It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.

Baron De Montesquieu

#11. We must go beyond organic, as it is currently defined in the National Organic Standards, and strive for food that is not only healthful and natural but also local ... Buying locally means farmers get more of the food dollar, we get better nutrition, and less fuel is consumed in transport.

Kathleen Merrigan

#12. Hy is it you can impose a new tax and keep your economy growing? Only if you cut other taxes by exactly the same amount. The problem with carbon taxes around the world has been you dump a new tax onto the economy and it's just adding more tax.

Christy Clark

#13. I do not want to impose additional taxes on the employers at a time when our economy is very fragile and we want to encourage them to hire.

Susan Collins

#14. A Buddha is a person who has no more business to do and isn't looking for anything. In doing nothing, in simply stopping, we can live freely and be true to ourselves, and our liberation will contribute to the liberation of all beings.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#15. Bodybuilders party a lot, and once, in Gold's
the gym in Venice, California, where all the top guys train there was a black girl who came out naked. Everybody jumped on her and took her upstairs, where we all got together.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#16. For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true thing. Criticism isn't written for poets, it's written for other readers. One hopes it is true for other readers if it's true for oneself.

Helen Vendler

#17. A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies