Quotes about Spending
Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have.
- Anonymous
I shop like a bull - I charge everything!
- Anonymous
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size
- Ronald Reagan
Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?
- Ronald Reagan
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
- Samuel Johnson
I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.
- Grover Norquist
The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.
- Thomas Jefferson
Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?
- Ronald Reagan
Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.
- Ronald Reagan
It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.
- Will Rogers
The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.
- Ronald Reagan
As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower