False Tax Returns

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

    “Rhyme, the rack of finest wits,
    That expresseth but by fits
    True conceit,
    Spoiling senses of their treasure,
    Cozening judgment with a measure,
    But false weight;
    Wresting words from their true calling;
    Propping verse for fear of falling
    To the ground;
    Jointing syllables, drowning letters,
    Fastening vowels, as with fetters
    They were bound!”
    —Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

    “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)

    “Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art returns to infancy, and virtue becomes small- minded.”
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)