Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Take this question of the payment of taxes which seems uppermost in many people's minds. It is true that you may work twice as hard and that when your income is above a certain amount, you may retain for yourself a much smaller percentage of the fruits of your labor. Perhaps the day will come when the man who is paying a high income tax will say to himself: "This is proof of my patriotism. The measures which are supported by this money are what make my country a better place to live in. They insure to me and to my children a greater security under the form of government which I have chosen”.

That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?

Can we understand - just for the record, we do need the government for a lot of big ticket items.

I want to pay taxes. I love this country.

I call upon all the loyal citizens engaged in production for defense to give precedence to the needs of the nation to the end that a system of government that makes private enterprise possible may survive.

Take this question of the payment of taxes which seems uppermost in many people's minds. It is true that you may work twice as hard and that when your income is above a certain amount, you may retain for yourself a much smaller percentage of the fruits of your labor. Perhaps the day will come when the man who is paying a high income tax will say to himself "This is proof of my patriotism. The measures which are supported by this money are what make my country a better place to live in. They insure to me and to my children a greater security under the form of government which I have chosen." We may pay high taxes but if it means that many hard working people have better lives, I am glad to do so. I am entirely in accord with the idea that it is hardly worthwhile to try to give a better way of life to those who will not work and help themselves, but there are many, many people who work hard and for one reason or another have very little return for their labor.

After military service, the most patriotic thing you can do as a wealthy person is pay your taxes.

Materialistic progress alone does not guarantee national security. What is essential is the character and integrity of the country's citizens.

I fought for the U.S. government. I live in New York. I pay taxes in America.

While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.

No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and since the Filipino is regarded as a fit citizen when he is asked to pay taxes or shed his blood to defend the fatherland, why must this fitness be denied him when the question arises of granting him some right?

Patriots don't let their nation default.

It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.

Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation.

I'll let Democrats defend spending our grandchildren broke on entitlements.

You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.

Governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit every one who enjoys his share of the protection should pay out of his estate his proportion for the maintenance of it.

It must be laid down as a primary position and the basis of our system, that every citizen who enjoys the protection of free government, owes not only a portion of his property, but even of his service to the defense of it.

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred.

The stronger we make our country the more she will give back

Where is the man who owes nothing to the land in which he lives?

You have got to be willing to pay for the government you want.

We want the benefits of government services ranging from security in our old age to the best national defense possible, but we scream when the bill for these services comes due in the form of higher taxes.