War Tax

Famous quotes containing the words war and/or tax:

“It was the most ungrateful and unjust act ever perpetrated by a republic upon a class of citizens who had worked and sacrificed and suffered as did the women of this nation in the struggle of the Civil War only to be rewarded at its close by such unspeakable degradation as to be reduced to the plane of subjects to enfranchised slaves.”
—Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)

“If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)