Just Me

From the 18th Cenruy Austrain Chancellor Wenzel Anton von Kauntiz-Ritterg to current American leadership. 

“It does not require much reflection or any profound insight to invent all kinds of ways and means of squeezing money out of our subjects. He who wishes to do so in a manner both reasonable and beneficial to the monarch and the state, however, must first,  or at least at the sametime, devote an equal measure of zeal to increasing his subjects wealth so they might bear this additional burden”