Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | |
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| NUMBER: | 1789 |
AUTHOR: | Ralph Waldo Emerson (180382) |
QUOTATION: | Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes. What a satire is this on government! Everywhere they think they get their moneys worth, except for these. |
ATTRIBUTION: | RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Politics, Essays: Second Series, in The Complete Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 1, p. 302 (1929). |
SUBJECTS: | Taxation |
WORKS: | Ralph Waldo Emerson Collection | |
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