Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1794
AUTHOR:
Cordell Hull (1871–1955)
QUOTATION:
Every good citizen … should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the making up of a listing of his income for taxes … to contribute to his Government, not the scriptural tithe, but a small percentage of his net profits.
ATTRIBUTION:
Representative CORDELL HULL, remarks in the House, April 26, 1913, Congressional Record, vol. 50, p. 505.
