“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.”
“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.”
“Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.”