Blessing Quote by Thomas Jefferson

I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national…

— Thomas Jefferson

I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic;…

— Andrew Jackson

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national…

— Andrew Johnson

To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of…

— Martin Van Buren

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.

— James Madison

Public debt [is] a burden on all the people.

— Calvin Coolidge

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty…

— William Weld

My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work.

— Tony Campolo

I am going to be a voice for restoring fiscal sanity in our country by spending hard-earned taxpayer money responsibly and responsively.

— Katie Britt

When I came to Congress, I campaigned for fiscal responsibility. And the earmarking problem and crisis caused a great erosion in the public's confidence…

— Chuck Fleischmann

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater curse than any other.

— James Madison