Conservative Quote by Richard Epstein

“Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.”

— Aristotle

“The predominant view was that budgets should be balanced and money supplies tightened. This, as we know today, only made matters worse.”

— Timothy Snyder

“For three decades following the war, economists, politicians, commentators and citizens all agreed that high public expenditure, administered by local or national authorities with…

— Tony Judt

“Except for spending to protect property rights, enforce the law, and protect citizens from foreign aggressors, all government spending crowds out private spending and…

— Thomas J. DiLorenzo

“The expenses of government, having for their object the interests of all, should be borne by every one, and the more a man enjoys…

— Anonymous

“After a certain point, more money is needed. Not to fill the pocket, but for the betterment of society.”

— Debasish Mridha

“this was a consequence of increasing prosperity, which, curiously enough, just seemed to bring out greed and selfishness.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“This is about a very few very rich, very greedy individuals getting ever richer, at the expense of human misery and suffering throughout the…

— Joseph Befumo

“History has shown that money is a salve unto itself for any malady of the troubled mind.”

— James Daniel Ross

“They just want to know what we stand for; our spending choices is one way that we articulate this.”

— Ron Lieber

“With this latest largesse, public expenditures have tripled since 2004, while the private sector’s contribution to non-oil GDP has stagnated.”

— Karen Elliott House

“When you nationalize the expenditures but privatize the revenue, everything is profit.”

— Tanya Thompson