Famous quotes containing the words local, property and/or tax:
“The local snivels through the fields:
I sit between felt-hatted mums....”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“For wisdom is the property of the dead,
A something incompatible with life; and power,
Like everything that has the stain of blood,
A property of the living; but no stain
Can come upon the visage of the moon
When it has looked in glory from a cloud.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“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 (18051859)
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