Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.
Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.
Now they got such a high inheritance tax on ’em that you won’t catch these old rich boys dying promiscuously like they did. This bill makes patriots out of everybody. You sure do die for your country if you die from now on.
Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.
You can’t legitimately kick on income tax, for it’s on what you have made. You have already made it. But, look at land, farms, homes, stores, vacant lots. You pay year after year on them whether you make it or not.
The sales tax is the best and most equitable tax. The gasoline tax, which is nothing but a sales tax, has proven painless, productive and punitive. Everything we buy should have its equal proportion of tax, outside of cheap food and cheap clothes.
If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to support half the community who own no land and pay no taxes.
The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it’s in the way that it’s spent.
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
There is a tremendous movement on to get lower taxes on earned incomes. Then will come the real problem, ‘Who among us on salary are earning our income?’
I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him ‘father.’
Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.
You know, women always could endure more than men. Not only physically, but mentally – did you ever get a peek at some of the husbands?
The man who never makes a mistake must get tired of doing nothing.
Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.
Harvard students have completed more English courses and less forward passes than any school in this generation.
Don’t wait to buy land, Buy land and wait. Find out where the people are going and buy the land before they get there.
It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.