Famous quotes containing the words pay and/or tax:
“You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labour, than when you give money merely in charity.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“I have no doubt that it was a principle they fought for, as much as our ancestors, and not to avoid a three-penny tax on their tea; and the results of this battle will be as important and memorable to those whom it concerns as those of the battle of Bunker Hill, at least.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)