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. |
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| SUBJECTS: | Taxation |