“Taxes are what we pay for civilized society,” wrote Justice Oliver Wendel Holmes (in dissent); it seems I’ve been misquoting it for decades as “taxes are the price of civilization.”
They’ve even got the Holmes version on the front of the IRS building in Washington:
Just for fun, here’s another good tax quote, from the IRS:
People who complain about taxes can be divided into two classes: men and women.”
— Unknown
