“I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.”
“LADY HUNSTANTON Lord Illingworth, you don't think that uneducated people should be allowed to have votes?LORD ILLINGWORTH I think they are the only people who should.”
“You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.”
“Just because you disagreed with the Poll Tax and detested Margaret Thatcher—""Detest is a little inappropriate," Parlabane said. "Maybe closer to say I spent the entire Eighties wishing I was pissing on her rotting corpse.”
“Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.”
“The Americans are right: there should not be taxation unless the people consent to it. And it should be fair, which means the nobility and clergy should be taxed as well.”