Public Money Quotes
23 Public Money quotes by 20 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Public money should be spent on art but through individuals not committees.
— Antony Gormley
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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
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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
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'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
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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: