Famous quotes containing the words united states, united, states and/or tax:
“... when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everyone will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses were always hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon to-day has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.”
—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)
“It is a united will, not mere walls, which makes a fort.”
—Chinese proverb.
“How many people in the United States do you think will be willing to go to war to free Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania?”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)