Famous quotes containing the words municipal, income and/or tax:
“No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.”
—Alfred E. Smith (1873–1944)
“You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; maybe you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)