"Notwithstanding reports that all economists are now Keynesians and that we all support a big increase in the burden o…"

"It is the duty of those serving the people in public place closely to limit public expenditures to the actual needs o…"

"The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to ha…"

"I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women…"

"Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhel…"

"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money."

"So that here we have, really, the compound, the overall philosophy of Lincoln: in all those things which deal with pe…"

"The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in…"

"We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy, to avoid burdening the peopl…"

"One of the most prevalent ideological mantras of Western capitalism is that the market should rule. But as the latest…"