Famous quotes containing the words land and/or tax:
“Every time we get near the land you get that look on your face. When a man goes to sea, he ought to give up thinking about things on shore. Land don’t want him no more. I’ve had me share of things go wrong and all come from the land. Now I’m through with the land and the land’s through with me.”
—Dudley Nichols (1895–1960)
“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)