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  • It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can. -- R. Lee Ermey
  • Additionally, this tax forces family businesses to invest in Uncle Sam rather than the economy. When families are forced to repurchase businesses because of the death tax, that means less money is being invested in new jobs and capital expansion. -- Todd Tiahrt
  • If you're familiar with my man Uncle Sam, you understand the only way you can actually feel better about what he's gonna take, come the end of the year, is lifestyle. Only thing you can do is spend some of it. -- Curtis Jackson
  • If 10% is good enough for Jesus, it oughta be enough for Uncle Sam. -- Ray Stevens
  • I received my Greetings from Uncle Sam in May 1943. I applied for the Air Force. -- Desi Arnaz
  • You can pay Uncle Sam with all your overtime, is that all you get for your money? -- Billy Joel
  • Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam. -- Olin Miller
  • ...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits. -- Smedley Butler
  • Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the battle. -- Malcolm X
  • A small business person has Uncle Sam as a partner, a partner who puts up no money, does no work, and wants 30 or 40 percent -- Irwin Schiff
  • You've got a problem. Part of what you own isn't yours. It belongs to Uncle Sam. May I show you how much belongs to Uncle Sam? -- Ben Feldman
  • As a broad generalization, big businesses have no moral objections to being whores. Getting into bed with Uncle Sam is all a question of price, not principle. -- Jonah Goldberg
  • I may drink too much and play too loud, hang out with a rough and rowdy crowd. That don't mean I don't respect my mama or Uncle Sam. -- Tracy Byrd
  • You have phantom income each year. No money is being put in your pocket, but you have to take some money out of your pocket to pay Uncle Sam because the tax is paid based on accretion. -- Scott Walker
  • We must proceed with our own energy development. Exploitation of domestic petroleum and natural gas potentialities, along with nuclear, solar, geothermal, and non-fossil fuels is vital. We will never again permit any foreign nation to have Uncle Sam over a barrel of oil. -- Gerald R. Ford
  • ...Senate Doc. # 259. The 65th congress(:)...The coal companies made between 100% and 7,856% on their capital stock during the war (to end all wars, WWI). ...The leather people sold your Uncle Sam hundreds of thousands of saddles for the calvary. But there wasn't any calvary overseas! -- Smedley Butler
  • Oooh, if you have never been to Alaska, go there while it is still wild. My favorite uncle asked me if I wanted to go there, Uncle Sam. He said if you don't go, you're going to jail. That is how Uncle Sam asks you. -- Bob Ross
  • Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of '33 For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me. He said, "Roll along Columbia. You can ramble to the sea, But river while you're ramblin' you can do some work for me." -- Woody Guthrie
  • It is quite likely ... that the central figure of the gospels is not based on any historical individual. Put simply, not only is the theological "Christ of faith" a synthetic construct of theologians, a symbolic "Uncle Sam" figure, but if you could travel ... back to First-Century Nazareth, you would not find a Jesus living there. -- Robert M. Price
  • Uncle Sam is not often called a fool in business matters, yet he has sold millions of acres of timber land at two dollars and a half an acre on which a single tree was worth more than a hundred dollars. But this priceless land has been patented, and nothing can be done now about the crazy bargain.... a bad, black business from beginning to end. -- John Muir
  • If 10 percent is good enough for the Lord, it ought to be good enough for Uncle Sam. -- Paul Broun
  • Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam. -- Olin Miller
  • Right now, I'm worth a million dollars, and I owe Uncle Sam a million-and-a-half dollars, and I made a deal with him. I said, 'Uncle Sam, I'm going to pay you 25 grand a month.' -- Robert Blake
  • The U.S. government uses cash accounting. That is illegal for any enterprise of any size in America except for the U.S. government. Every for-profit business, every not-for-profit business, every state and local government has to use real accounting except for Uncle Sam. -- Jim Cooper
  • Uncle Sam is forcing integration only because he's trying to impress the people of - abroad that he's morally qualified to be the leader of the world. -- Malcolm X
  • Why should [Uncle Sam] send 20 billion dollars down there [South America], which is going to go down the drain every time you have a racial in - incident in this country? -- Malcolm X
  • It is less dangerous to draw a cartoon of Allah French-kissing Uncle Sam ? which, let me make it very clear, I have not done ? than it is to speak honestly about [working moms]. -- Tina Fey
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