"To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men."
— Taxation

January 1, 1970

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Edmund Burke, speech on American taxation, House of Commons (April 19, 1774); The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, ed. Paul Langford, vol. 2, p. 454 (1981).