Public Money Quotes

23 Public Money quotes by 20 unique authors

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed… — Chester A. Arthur
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody. — Calvin Coolidge
The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion… — Calvin Coolidge
We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an… — Calvin Coolidge
To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves. — Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer… — Martin Van Buren
Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money. — Unknown Author
Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard… — Thomas Paine
I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must not let our… — Thomas Jefferson
Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes… — Margaret Thatcher
All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for the effects on… — Derrick Jensen
Everybody is entitled to believe. Churches have exactly the same right to exist as a football club, a trade union or a political party. But… — A.C. Grayling
The idea of America's religious groups fighting over the limited public money to be made available takes us down the road towards the kind of… — David Saperstein
Obama's the one who never worked a day in his life. He never earned a penny that wasn't public money. How many fund-raisers does he… — Roger Ailes
For the corporation executives, the military metaphysic often coincides with their interest in a stable and planned flow of profit; it enables them to have… — C. Wright Mills
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the… — Davy Crockett
Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking… — Jennifer Granholm
We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress… — Davy Crockett
Public money should be spent on art but through individuals not committees. — Antony Gormley
Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal… — Richard Flanagan
Doing nothing and shrinking spending may save us public money in the short term but could cost us a great deal more over time as… — Lucy Powell
'We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress… — Andrew Guzaldo
I'll sing you a new ballad, andI'll warrant it first-rate, Of the days of that old gentleman who had that old estate; When they spent… — Charles Dickens

Who Wrote These Public Money Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 23 Public Money Quotes as follows: