Famous quotes containing the words top and/or tax:
“Kindliness seems to exist primarily as an animal instinct, so deeply rooted that mental degeneracy, which works from the top down, does not destroy it until the mind sinks to the lower grades of idiocy.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)
“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)