Charles E. Merrill Quotations

She was from a privileged background and we paid a tremendous amount of taxes over the years. I know first-hand the benefits of being married, from a tax standpoint.

Mr. Ware has no right to discharge any of his laborers on account of their political opinion.

I have a lot of inner resource and I'm sure you could read and study in jail. Of course, all of this would have to go to court first and the constitutionality of not giving gays the right to marry would have to come up first.

It would really wake up the Congress and Senate. You can't just make laws against people and not expect repercussions.

If Mr. Ware does not want republican laborers on his plantation, let him pay them in full for the time contracted for, and they will leave his plantation at once.

I have no intention of paying taxes because my partner are considered second-class citizens due to laws that prevent us from being married because we are two men. Hello, we don't have the same tax law rights as heterosexual married couples filing income tax. Very unfair.

If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business.

If you die and leave property to your partner, you're taxed on it as if you left it to a stranger. You can give your partner only $11,000 as a gift, but if you're married, you can give your wife unlimited gifts.

Gay people are really getting taxation without representation. I have no intention of paying taxes because my partner and I cannot be legally married and receive the same tax benefits as other married couples.

If he wants their labor, let them go to work, without regard to politics.