Corn Tax

Famous quotes containing the words corn and/or tax:

“The corn is as high as an elephant’s eye.”
—Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960)

“I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)