Application Quote by James Madison

Money is an instrumentality of the profit motive and must be issued and backed only by private enterprisers. Economic and political perversities are inescapable…

— E.C. Riegel

All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes down ultimately…

— Ayn Rand

The other General Welfare Clause is in the first of the authorities given to the Congress and it's not a grant, it's a restriction.…

— Andrew Napolitano

The government, in my judgment, cannot create money; the government can give its note, like an individual, and the prospect of its being paid…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken by as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by…

— Wendell Berry

With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take…

— James Madison

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

— Ronald Reagan

We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of…

— Davy Crockett

Charity requires sacrifice, and members of Congress could set a good example of charity by giving up their pay increase.

— Tom Coburn

Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer.

— Donald Rumsfeld

If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to…

— Andrew Jackson

Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.

— John Stossel