Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1796
AUTHOR:
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
QUOTATION:
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
ATTRIBUTION:
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Everybody’s Political What’s What?, chapter 30, p. 256 (1944).
Shaw wrote this book “to track down some of the mistakes that have landed us in a gross misdistribution of domestic income and two world wars in twentyfive years” (p. 1).
