Famous quotes with Public money

• 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
• It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.

  Martin Van Buren
• We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

  Davy Crockett
• The Executive is charged officially in the Departments under it with the disbursement of the public money, and is responsible for the faithful application of it to the purposes for which it is raised. The Legislature is the watchful guardian over the public purse. It is its duty to see that the disbursement has been honestly made.

  James Monroe
• In my creed, waste of public money is like the sin against the Holy Ghost.

  John Morley

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