Authority Quote by Alexander Hamilton

The government's focus is very clear: borrow, build, monetise and repay.

— Anurag Thakur

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow…

— Abraham Lincoln

Instead of taxing rich people, governments borrow from them, and pay them interest for the privilege.

— Doug Henwood

It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain…

— Thomas Jefferson

To finance deficits, the government must sell bonds to investors, competing for capital that could otherwise be used to invest in stocks or corporate…

— Alex Berenson

So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its…

— John Quincy Adams

The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.

— Milton Friedman

Aside from sending someone to war or to prison, government s ability to make people involuntarily give over their money is its strongest exercise…

— William Greider

I can scarcely contemplate a greater calamity that could befall this country, than be loaded with a debt exceeding their ability ever to discharge.…

— Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the taking more than 4 l. per cent…

— Dudley North

There was no measure that required greater caution or more severe scrutiny than one to impose taxes or raise a loan, be the form…

— John C. Calhoun

That is to say, under the old way any time we wish to add to the national wealth we are compelled to add to…

— Thomas A. Edison