Corn Tax

Famous quotes containing the words corn and/or tax:

“We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards the corn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“...many tax collectors and sinners were also sitting with Jesus.”
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 2:15.