Famous quotes containing the words border and/or tax:
“For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a world into which I make occasional and transient forays only, and my patriotism and allegiance to the state into whose territories I seem to retreat are those of a moss-trooper.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)