Budgets Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from…

— Abraham Lincoln

In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal…

— John Buchanan Robinson

My first rule - the golden rule - ensures that over the economic cycle the Government will borrow only to invest, and that current…

— Gordon Brown

Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed…

— Carter Glass

The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the taking more than 4 l. per cent…

— Dudley North

The power of creating new funds upon new objects of taxation, by its own authority, would enable the national government to borrow as far…

— Alexander Hamilton

It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue…

— Wilfrid Laurier

It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure…

— Alexander Hamilton

As a general rule, governments are wise to avoid taxation that is voluntary, as they need a steady stream of income.

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

There was no measure that required greater caution or more severe scrutiny than one to impose taxes or raise a loan, be the form…

— John C. Calhoun

I don't mind the government accruing debts as long as every dollar is spent effectively with a high return. That works out fine. If…

— Jeremy Grantham

It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should, with the consent of the creditors, be remoulded into such a shape as will…

— Alexander Hamilton