Quotes about Spending

Efficient spending and saving will give the family more security, more opportunities, more education, and a higher standard of living.

Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith.

It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent.

Make spending your time a matter of conscience. "Redeeming the time" (Eph. 5:16). Many people fool away their time, some in idle visits, others in recreations and pleasures which secretly bewitch the heart and take it away from better things. What are our golden hours for—but to attend to our souls? Time misspent is not time lived but time lost! Time is a precious commodity.

Used to tell me that people spend money on three things: what they love, what they worship, and what helps ease their pain.

The crime of taxation is not in the taking of it, it's in the way that it's spent.

...without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

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.

Many persons, as they begin to prosper, immediately expand their ideas and commence expending for luxuries, until in a short time their expenses swallow up their income, and they become ruined in their ridiculous attempts to keep up appearances, and make a "sensation.

Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.

It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.