Budgets Quote by James Madison Download Open image “The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.” — James Madison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Budgets Finance Inspirational Love Money Productive Productivity Taxation
There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political economy, so much as the business of taxation. The man who understands those principles best will be least likely to resort to oppressive expedients, or sacrifice any particular class of citizens to the procurement of revenue. It might… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share
Our financial system, for as advanced a country that we are, could be so much better. — Baiju Bhatt Copy Share Image
Competition and variety in financial services are always good things. — Taavet Hinrikus Copy Share Image
In nature, all is managed for the best with perfect frugality and just reserve, profuse to none, but bountiful to all; never employing on… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
To acquire wealth is difficult, to preserve it is more difficult, but to spend it wisely, most difficult of all. — J. Edward Day Copy Share Image
Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must not let… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One of the things that's great about the financial industry is, it's really financially rewarding. — Stephanie Ruhle Copy Share Image
The single most important personal finance decision you make is your career. — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments… — James Madison Copy Share Image
How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation? The means of security can only be regulated by the means and the danger of attack. They will, in fact, be ever determined by these rules, and by no others . .… — James Madison Copy Share
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential, that such… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded. — James Madison Copy Share Image
They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“... But besides the danger of a direct mixture of Religion & civil Government , there is an evil which ought to be guarded agst in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by ecclesiastical corporations. ...Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the… — James Madison Copy Share
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory for Osama bin Laden, whose announced goal was to bankrupt America by drawing it into a trap. The 2011 military budget - almost matching that of the rest of the world combined - is higher in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding war, why we need to cut the military budget by 50%, why we need to bring back our troops scattered overseas, the police force of the world, in over a hundred countries, something like eight hundred… — Jill Stein Copy Share
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
At times of recession, running a budget deficit is highly desirable. Once the economy begins to recover, you have to balance the budget. But… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Their [the U.S.’s] defense budget in absolute figures is almost 25 times bigger than Russia’s. This is what in defense is referred to as… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors… — John B. Anderson Copy Share Image
Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding… — Michael McCaul Copy Share Image
Sometimes a party must sail against the wind. We cannot heed the call of those who say it is time to furl the sail.… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
America's military is second to none in the world. We're blessed with terrific soldiers, and extraordinary technology and intelligence. But the idea of a… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The only features I've done have been on the lower-budget end, for what they were. It's really all about getting the best people aboard… — Mick Garris Copy Share Image
The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians. — Sylvia Porter Copy Share Image