The art of taxation consists of so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.
--Jean-Baptiste Colbert
In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other.
--Voltaire
The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.
--Thomas Jefferson
Find out just what the people will submit to and you will have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
--Frederick Douglass
Forget about drug deaths, and acquisitive crime, and addiction, and AIDS. All this pales into insignificance before the prospect facing the liberal societies of the West. The income of the drug barons is greater than the American defense budget. With this financial power they can suborn the institutions of the State, and if the State resists ... they can purchase the firepower to outgun it. We are threatened with a return to the Dark Ages.
--former Columbian high court judge Gomez Hurtado
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