"I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation." - Paul RyanTweet
"I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition." - Mercedes McCambridgeTweet
"I believe in the institution of marriage. Of course being a Mormon, we believe in eternity rather than just till death do us part. If you really try hard, if you make it work, it's blissful. But I also know a marriage that isn't working can be painful." - Donny OsmondTweet
"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth." - Francois de La RochefoucauldTweet
"Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal." - Adlai E. StevensonTweet
"Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me." - Dennis RodmanTweet
"'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death." - Marquis de SadeTweet
"Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death." - Jean-Jacques RousseauTweet
"What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death." - Dave BarryTweet
"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success." - Samuel ButlerTweet