Tax Collectors

Famous quotes containing the words tax collectors and/or tax:

“...many tax collectors and sinners were also sitting with Jesus.”
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 2:15.

“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)