Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1789
AUTHOR:
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82)
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 money’s 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).
