Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1797 |
| AUTHOR: | Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59) |
| QUOTATION: | In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. |
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| SUBJECTS: | Taxation |