Ship Money Tax

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

“Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)

“You’re a dreamer, Doc. Too much money is bad for dreamers.”
—John Thomas Neville. Jean Yarborough. Henry Morton (Guy Usher)

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