Ship Money Tax

Famous quotes containing the words ship, money and/or tax:

“Have you built your ship of death, O have you?
O build your ship of death, for you will need it.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.”
—Chester A. Arthur (1829–1886)

“I have no doubt that it was a principle they fought for, as much as our ancestors, and not to avoid a three-penny tax on their tea; and the results of this battle will be as important and memorable to those whom it concerns as those of the battle of Bunker Hill, at least.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)