| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 1789 |
| AUTHOR: | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) |
| QUOTATION: | Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes. What a satire is this on government! Everywhere they think they get their money’s worth, except for these. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | RALPH WALDO EMERSON, “Politics,” Essays: Second Series, in The Complete Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 1, p. 302 (1929). |
| SUBJECTS: | Taxation |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia |
| WORKS: | Ralph Waldo Emerson Collection |
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