Spending Other People's Money Quotes

• Never spend your money before you have earned it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Money, Debt Free, Owing A Debt

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• The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Running, Freedom, Government

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• Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

  Dick Armey

  Trust, Children, Government

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• That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money.

  John Randolph of Roanoke

  People, Privilege, Spending

  "John Randolph of Roanoke". Book by William Cabell Bruce, vol. 2, chapter 7, p. 204, 1773 - 1833.

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• We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

  Winston Churchill

  Freedom, Humor, Men

  Winston S. Churchill “Young Statesman”

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• When the desirable jobs are spending other people's money, reporting on spending other people's money and lobbying to spend other people's money then you know that the society is f***ed.

  Tim Worstall

  Jobs, People, Lobbying

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  Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Change, Time

  Teacher, Volume 43, 1971.

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• Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Smile, Money

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• A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.

  Anne Northup

  Teenager, People, Common

  "Freshman Rep. Anne Northup Wins GOP Attention with Flair" by Susan Crabtree, www.questia.com.

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• It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Happiness, Leadership, Money

  George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.251, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Money, Greatest Wealth

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• Democrats have always wanted to grow government with revenues from our society's producers. They aren't sincere about reducing the deficit, because they will not abandon their addiction to spending other people's money.

  David Limbaugh

  Government, People, Addiction

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• It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

  Albert Camus

  Funny, Spiritual, Witty

  Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”

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• Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Running, Socialist Government, People

  "This Week" with Llew Gardner, www.margaretthatcher.org. February 5, 1976.

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• Do we really want the people who created $40 trillion of unfunded liabilities in Social Security and Medicare in charge of our health care? Faceless bureaucrats, power-lusting politicians, and people spending other people's money are a recipe for disaster.

  Ed Crane

  People, Lust, Want

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• Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Funny, Inspiring

  Khalil Gibran (2015). “A Tear And A Smile - Parables, Stories, and Poems of Khalil Gibran”, p.22, Editora Dracaena

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• Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

  Ayn Rand

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.316, Hamilton Books

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