Public Expense Quotes

9 quotes by 9 authors

• Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them. — Baruch Spinoza
• To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to… — Thomas Jefferson
• Cap and trade generates special interests, lobbyists, and trading schemes, yielding non-productive millionaires, all at public expense. The public is fed up with such business.… — James Hansen
• Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense. — Donald J. Boudreaux
• The sort of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase one another, or a lion gnaw its tail, or… — H. L. Mencken
• It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and… — Edward Everett
• Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment. — Lyndon B. Johnson
• Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense. — James Madison
• It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than… — Adam Smith

Who Wrote These Public Expense Quotes

9 authors contributed a total of 9 Public Expense Quotes as follows:

• 1 Public Expense Quote by Baruch Spinoza
• 1 Public Expense Quote by Thomas Jefferson
• 1 Public Expense Quote by James Hansen
• 1 Public Expense Quote by Donald J. Boudreaux
• 1 Public Expense Quote by H. L. Mencken
• 1 Public Expense Quote by Edward Everett
• 1 Public Expense Quote by Lyndon B. Johnson
• 1 Public Expense Quote by James Madison
• 1 Public Expense Quote by Adam Smith