3 Samuel Johnson Quotes on Policy

Samuel Johnson quotes on policy

65. 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.

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

144. 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.