50 Treasury Quotes for You to Enjoy

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even. Will Rogers

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If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized. Lysander Spooner

Government Single Band States Only Never Had Robbery Likely Without Dollar Any Declare Taxation Themselves Then Now United United States United States Government Treasury Consent Honest

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Memory Guardian All Things Things Treasury

Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris. George Ayittey

Corruption World Destruction Cause Problems Naked Carnage States Worst Collapsed Plunder Horrendous Vapid Cases Devastated Economies Leaving Caused Wake Debris Trails Dictators Human Wanton Grand Theft Treasury

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

Prosperity Restored Cannot Public Treasury

God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury. Saint Basil

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The Federal Reserve, the Treasury, all the regulator agencies - if there's a problem of the financial mechanism in society, the only one to fix it is government. They've got a legitimate role. Dick Cheney

Government Problem Financial Society Only Federal Federal Reserve Got Fix Role Legitimate Agencies Regulator Mechanism Reserve Treasury

When confronted with a direct threat to American security, Obama has shown he is willing to act unilaterally - in a targeted, get-in-and-get-out fashion, that avoids, at all costs, the kind of messy ground wars and lengthy occupations that have drained America's treasury and spirit for the past decades. David E. Sanger

Fashion Past Drained Kind Willing Security Obama Threat Spirit Direct Costs He Occupations Messy Targeted Decades America American Lengthy Confronted Act Ground Wars Shown Treasury

The whole of government needs to contribute to the shared goal of restructuring the British economy. But that means taking on the myth that the Treasury either knows best or can run it all. It just doesn't. David Miliband

Government Best Needs Myth Run Restructuring Shared Taking Economy Knows Goal Contribute Just Either Means Whole Treasury British

Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury. Edmund Morgan

Time Brilliant Father Young Alexander Thirty Everybody Secretary States Constitutional Only He Knows Sure Hamilton His Left Behind Just Convention Turned United United States Founding Treasury Career

EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise. G. Edward Griffin

It is no secret that those of us in the Northwest believe the Administration's proposal to drive up the cost of electricity in our region is not only misguided, but also will not achieve the intended goal of raising money for the treasury. Greg Walden

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I was secretary of the Treasury in 2008. In that role, I had the privilege to work with many talented men and women in government and the private sector who labored to pull our nation back from the brink of disaster. Henry Paulson

A study by Treasury economists estimated that a country with a tax rate one percentage point lower than another country's attracts 3 percent more capital. It's not surprising then, that average OECD corporate tax rates have trended steadily downward. Henry Paulson

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When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset register, which was immediately dubbed by the boomers of the UK Treasury 'the modern Domesday Book.' James Buchan

Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments. Jeffrey Sachs

Government Action Meet Would Would-Be Counted Almost Development Between Nobody Because Understands Hand America Authority Commitments Senior Actions Even Gap Specialists Aware Treasury Needed

If investors avoid the Treasury market, we could be unable to pay off maturing securities, which would mean an immediate default. Market participants generally agree that even a brief default would create potentially catastrophic risks to the financial system, like the meltdown of 2008. Jerome Powell

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In many cases, the Treasury will get preferred or convertible preferred stock for the money it gives to banks. These shares typically don't have voting rights, possibly to give more of a hands-off appearance to the government. Jerry A. Webman

If you need to put your money in a safe and secure place and you want it to earn interest, Treasury bonds are safer than putting it in any bank as a deposit or putting it anywhere else, because they are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government. Jim Cooper

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