 | Henry Atton - Customs administration - 1910 - 546 pages
...independence, the home Government meanwhile gracefully doing its best to disprove Burke's acrid maxim that ' to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to man.' Administratively speaking, the period at which this second volume appears is scarcely less important... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1910 - 462 pages
...loved : and therefore it is well said, that it is impossible to love and to be wise." Cf. Burke, "To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to man." 26. indifferently, equally. 28. To show the wanderer, Cicero, emphasizing the duty of sharing... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1911 - 318 pages
...However, he attempted it. To render the tax palatable to the partisans of American revenue, he had a preamble stating the necessity of such a revenue....American distinction, this revenue was external or port duty ; but again, to soften it to the other party, it was a duty of supply. To gratify the colonists,... | |
 | Godfrey Tennyson Lampson Locker-Lampson - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1918 - 632 pages
...exchequer, found himself in great straits. To please universally was the object of his life ; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be...he attempted it. To render the tax palatable to the partisians of American revenue, he made a preamble, stating the necessity of such a revenue. To close... | |
 | 1925 - 136 pages
...Exchequer, found himself in great straits. To please universally was the object of his life ; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be...given to men. However, he attempted it. To render a tax palatable to the partisans of American revenue, he made a preamble, stating the necessity of... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - United States - 1927 - 840 pages
...been a witness. He told his auditors that to please universally was the object of Townshend's life. "To render the tax palatable to the partisans of American revenue, he had a preamble stating the necessity of such a revenue. To close with the American distinction, this... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - Finance, Public - 1968 - 256 pages
...American colonists, you recall, during the Revolution and prerevolutionary period. Burke said : "To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men." Our agency is the agency that stands between the Congress which enacts the laws and the taxpayers who... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - Families - 1980 - 436 pages
...inequities in our system of taxation that affect so many millions of people. It's been said that "To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men." I would add, that as in love, we should never stop trying. WASHINGTON, BC MY DEAR MR. MARTIN : In regard... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - Families - 1980 - 438 pages
...inequities in our system of taxation that affect so many millions of people. It's been said that "To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men." I would add, that as in love, we should never stop trying. WASHINGTON, DC MY DEAR ME. MARTIN : In regard... | |
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Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself in great straits. 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. 
