Public Treasury Quotes

#1. Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.

Herbert Hoover

#2. Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the State.

Adam Smith

#3. Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

Will Rogers

#4. No republic has long outlived the discovery by a majority of its people that they could vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.

Alexander Fraser Tytler

#5. Much of Christmas' beauty is in its sameness. The same traditions. The same meals. The same songs. The same story. Yet each Christmas is a little different.

Calvin Miller

#6. The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.

James Monroe

#7. In my judgment, my buildings are considerably less likely to burn to the ground during one of your visits if you are disoriented from being treated like a sultan.

Jim Butcher

#8. I've been writing a lot of songs in twos, songs that are like twins in my mind.

Angel Olsen

#9. I should never have loved him . I should never love anyone because it ends up being worse than being alone.

Brian James

#10. In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!

Napoleon Bonaparte

#11. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

Mark Twain

#12. The biggest battle in life is to change the negative stories we tell ourselves

Melanie Greenberg

#13. The faster you act, the more stable your company becomes and the higher your chances of success. Perfectionists make lousy entrepreneurs.

Sean Wise

#14. One man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves.

James Allen

#15. Lila Bard lived by a simple rule: if a thing was worth having, it was worth taking.

V.E Schwab

#16. travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.

Paul Theroux

#17. My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

Merton Miller

#18. He never looks away, searching my eyes for truth. His reaction has left my heart pounding, shocked at how quick he was to dismiss any fault I may have had. I wish he was just as quick to dismiss his own faults, but he isn't.

Colleen Hoover

#19. If we had a truth-in Government act comparable to the truth-in-advertising law, every note issued by the Treasury would be obliged to include a sentence stating: This note will be redeemed with the proceeds from an identical note which will be sold to the public when this one comes due.

Walter Wriston

#20. There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.

John Lancaster Spalding