Treasury famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.
-- George Washington

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Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
-- Herbert Hoover

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My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.
-- Merton Miller

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Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.
-- Peter R. Orszag

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Heaven - the treasury of everlasting life.
-- William Shakespeare

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I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.
-- Flann O'Brien

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If your employer pays your health insurance, that's not counted as income to you. And any economist would say that's your income, because they'd pay a higher wage if they didn't take it. That's a huge loss to the Treasury.
-- T.R. Reid

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The Treasury model of the economy has been pretty well wrong on everything for many years
-- William Rees-Mogg

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I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
For the world order to be one of peace and justice, for the global village to be a theater of right livelihood, it is imperative that a new and proactive spiritual vision commensurate to the challenges of the emerging world order be enunciated without delay.
Jacob Zuma built a 2 million rand swimming pool, but no one in the family knows how to swim
Cuvier had even in his address & manner the character of a superior Man, much general power & eloquence in conversation & great variety of information on scientific as well as popular subjects. I should say of him that he is the most distinguished man of talents I have ever known on the continent: but I doubt if He be entitled to the appellation of a Man of Genius.
Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
A flower touches everyone's heart.
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning, but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh Upon the glass and listen for reply, And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain For unremembered lads that not again Will turn to me at midnight with a cry. Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before: I cannot say what loves have come and gone, I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.