Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1796 |
| AUTHOR: | George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) |
| QUOTATION: | A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Shaw wrote this book “to track down some of the mistakes that have landed us in a gross misdistribution of domestic income and two world wars in twentyfive years” (p. 1). |
| SUBJECTS: | Taxation |