False Tax Returns

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

    “False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.”
    —Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)

    “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)