Famous quotes containing the words pay and/or tax:
“I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)