Head Tax

Famous quotes containing the words head and/or tax:

“Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)