Famous quotes containing the words pay and/or tax:
“In our daily intercourse with men, our nobler faculties are dormant and suffered to rust. None will pay us the compliment to expect nobleness from us. Though we have gold to give, they demand only copper.”
—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)