Ship Money Tax

Famous quotes containing the words ship, money and/or tax:

“A ship has a soul.”
—John Rhodes Sturdy, Canadian screenwriter. Richard Rossen. “Stooky” O’Meara (Barry Fitzgerald)

“As I went about with my father when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid some one had to work to earn the money to pay them.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)

“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)