False Tax Returns

Famous quotes containing the words false, tax and/or returns:

    “A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!”
    —Henry Fielding (1707–1754)

    “In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.”
    —Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

    “So cruel prison how could betide, alas,
    As proud Windsor, Where I in lust and joy
    With a king’s son my childish years did pass
    In greater feast than Priam’s sons of Troy?
    Where each sweet place returns a taste full sour;”
    —Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517?–1547)