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"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing."

-- Jean Baptiste Colbert
(1619-1693), French economist and Minister of Finance under King Louis XIV

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Jean.Baptiste.Colbert.Quote.FB68


"The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs,
nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately,
by the grace of God."

-- Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.736D


"To lay with one hand the power of government on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow it on favored individuals...
is none the less robbery because it is... called taxation."

-- United States Supreme Court
Source: Loan Association v. Topeka(18__)

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/United.States.Supreme.Court.Quote.AC3E