Paul Laxalt famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The high-handed bureaucratic excesses of the IRS are a national disgrace ... riding roughshod over the taxpayers and making a joke out of our rule of laws.
-- Paul Laxalt

#Law #Excess #Irs
If you're tempted to believe with Governor Cuomo that government is just like Mom and Pop rather than Big Brother, just ask yourself one question: When was the last time all the IRS wanted from you was a hug and a kiss.
-- Paul Laxalt

#Mom #Brother #Believe
[Deficits are] a yawner. We, as Republicans, have talked about deficits and balanced budgets since the days of Roosevelt, and the people simply haven't listened, because they can't relate to those huge numbers.
-- Paul Laxalt

#Numbers #People #Republican
A politician taking campaign money from gamblers in Nevada is like one taking campaign money from the auto people in Michigan. Gambling is our legal business.
-- Paul Laxalt

#Gambling #People #Campaigns

All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development.
The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.
If the divine Mercy grants him the knowledge of himself, then his adoration will be pure; and, for him, paradise and hell, recompense, spiritual degrees and all created things will be as though God had never created them. He will not accord them any importance, nor will he take them into consideration, except to the extent that it is prescribed by the divine Law and Wisdom. For then he will know Who is the sole Agent.
How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.
Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.
I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.
The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!
I don't want the IRS banging down my door.

Paul Laxalt famous quotes

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