Samuel Johnson Quotes on Policy

3 quotes

  1. EXCISE - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.

  2. A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

  3. There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

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