Posts Tagged ‘expenditure’
Susan Sontag: War Expenditure
on Saturday, May 8, 2021Susan Sontag Money Quote saying no one is expected to see war-making in a realistic light when it comes to cost when it is usually considered an emergency where no expense is spared. Susan Sontag said:
“War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view ‘realistically’; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent—war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive” — Susan Sontag
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Calvin Coolidge: Public Expenditure
on Tuesday, October 27, 2020Calvin Coolidge Money Quote saying it is easy to bestow public money when there are so many looking for the opportunity. Calvin Coolidge said:
“Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money. It doesn’t appear to belong to anyone. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody” — Calvin Coolidge
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James K. Polk: Frugal Government
on Saturday, November 2, 2019James K. Polk Money Quote saying frugality with public monies is the responsibility of the President and should be enforced by Congress. James K. Polk said:
“Ours was intended to be a plain and frugal government, and I shall regard it to be my duty to recommend to Congress and, as far as the Executive is concerned, to enforce by all the means within my power the strictest economy in the expenditure of the public money which may be compatible with the public interests” — James K. Polk
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Chester A. Arthur on Measure of Tax Evil
on Tuesday, April 14, 2015Chester A. Arthur Money Quotation saying taxation hurts those who make the least more, so they feel it more. Chester A. Arthur said:
“The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it” — Chester A. Arthur
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Keith Davis: Allocating Budget Expenditures
on Monday, March 21, 2011Funny Money Quotes: Running out of budget can be rationalized by claiming the money wasn’t properly allocated by failing to foresee this very shortfall. Keith Davis said:
“We didn’t actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure” — Keith Davis
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Charles Dickens: Annual Income Emotions
on Thursday, November 11, 2010Charles Dickens Money Quotation saying that if you spend less than you earn you’ll be happy, regardless of how much you earn. Dickens said:
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery” — Charles Dickens
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