Supplicii non spectator modo, sed et Exactor erat Brutus, qui tunc patrem exuit, ut consulem ageret.
"Selections from Viri Romae"
Charles François L'Homond
What would you say to a cruel Mogul Exactor, by whom after having been driven from your estates, driven from the noble offices, civil and military, which you hold, driven from your bishoprics, driven from your places at court, driven from your offices as judges, and, after having been reduced to a miserable flock of pensioners, your very pensions were at last wrested from your mouths, and who, though at the very time when those pensions were wrested from you he declares them to have been the only bread of a miserable decayed nobility, takes himself two hundred pounds a day for his entertainment, and continues it till it amounts to sixteen thousand pounds?
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. X. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke