WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 23 May 2026 14:55:40 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg voluntary – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Jackson, Robert H. -- United States v. Kahriger, 345 U.S. 36 (1953) [concurring] https://wist.info/jackson-robert-h/54768/ https://wist.info/jackson-robert-h/54768/#respond Thu, 14 Jul 2022 14:19:34 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=54768 The United States has a system of taxation by confession. That a people so numerous, scattered and individualistic annually assesses itself with a tax liability, often in highly burdensome amounts, is a reassuring sign of the stability and vitality of our system of self-government. What surprised me in once trying to help administer these laws was not to discover examples of recalcitrance, fraud or self-serving mistakes in reporting, but to discover that such derelictions were so few.


Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954) US Supreme Court Justice (1941-54), lawyer, jurist, politician
United States v. Kahriger, 345 U.S. 36 (1953) [concurring]
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