Just because it’s common sense, doesn’t mean it’s common practice.
There is no income tax in Russia. But there’s no income.
Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion.
I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.
They are having quite an argument over Treasury Secretary Mellon’s Tax Bill. Mr. Mellon wants to cut the surtax on the rich, and leave it as is on the poor, as there is more poor than rich. I suppose the majority will win.
If your Income Taxes go to help out the less fortunate, there could be no legitimate kick against it in the world. This is becoming the richest, and the poorest Country in the world. Why? Why, on account of an unequal distribution of the money.
I don’t care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.
Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments.
Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there’s no accounting for anyone’s taste.
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.
We Americans think we are pretty good! We want to build a house, we cut down some trees. We want to build a fire, we dig a little coal. But when we run out of all these things, then we will find out just how good we really are.
No nation ever had two better friends that we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them.
Banking and after-dinner speaking are two of the most nonessential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform, if they are.
The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona.
We have the best Congress that money can buy.
The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?
I wonder if it isn’t just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.
The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.
The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment.