7 Quotes by Ian Davidson

It has been argued that in the eighteenth century a person with an annual income of 15,000 livres or more could be described as wealthy, and a person with an income of 30,000 livres or more could be described as extremely wealthy.1 If this benchmark is even roughly valid, it implies that when Voltaire became wealthy, after 1729, he became very, very, very wealthy.

Sir, did you not hear the orders of the King?" Bailly replied: "...It seems o me that the nation assembled cannot take orders.

I accuse you of marching towards supreme power.- said by Jean-Baptiste Louvet to Robespierre (1792)

If I were to put a date on it, I would say that the French Revolution finally came to rest after almost exactly 180 years, on April 28, 1969, when President de Gaulle resigned in a huff and the Fifth Republic, which he had founded, sailed on without him without a tremor.

A projection forward, with expenditure remaining at budgeted levels, could well result in a revenue overrun of 20 billion rand for the year. This will allow the government plenty of room for tax cuts and a further increase in infrastructural spending.

They are either negligent, incompetent, politically suspect or a combination of all three.

Instead of the present ad hoc adjustments to the tax rate we ... call for government to provide greater certainty to the market regarding its fiscal regime by committing itself to a target corporate tax rate in the region of 25% to be implemented within a fixed time frame. This would provide an immediate boost to investment and therefore jobs.