Quote from Jean Baptiste Colbert 

"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."

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