
— Paul Wolfowitz American politician, diplomat, and technocrat 1943
Congressional Testimony, March 27, 2003.
Speech to Conservative Party Conference (14 October 1983) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105454
Second term as Prime Minister
Context: Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to spend more it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay – that ‘someone else’ is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers’ money.
— Paul Wolfowitz American politician, diplomat, and technocrat 1943
Congressional Testimony, March 27, 2003.
— Christopher Monckton British public speaker and hereditary peer 1952
Angus McLeod. Christopher Monckton and his support for subsidies to Scotland, Sunday Mail, April 16, 1995.
— Chester A. Arthur American politician, 21st President of the United States (in office from 1881 to 1885) 1829 - 1886
Veto message of Rivers and Harbor Bill (1882).
1880s
— George W. Bush 43rd President of the United States 1946
emphasis added
http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050519182609990007&ncid=NWS00010000000001 AP, 21 May 2005
2000s, 2005
— Edmund Waller English poet and politician 1606 - 1687
Speech in parliament (19 October 1675) http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=40374.
Context: The King governs by Law. Let us look back to the evils we had, in order to prevent more. There was loan, and ship-money, and extremes begat extremes. The House would then give no money. Let the King rely upon the Parliament; we have settled the Crown and the Government. 'Tis strange that we have sat so many years, and given so much money, and are still called upon for Supply. The Lords may give Supply with their own money, but we give the peoples; we are their proxies. The King takes his measures by the Parliament, and he doubts not but that all the Commons will supply for the Government; but giving at this rate that we have done, we shall be "a branch of the revenue." They will "anticipate" us too. But, let the officers say what they will, we will not make these mismanagements the King's error. 'Tis better it should fall upon us than the King. We give public money, and must see that it goes to public use. Tell your money, fix it to public ends, and take order against occasions of this nature for the future. We cannot live at the expence of Spain, that has the Indies; or France, who has so many millions of revenue. Let us look to our Government, Fleet, and Trade. 'Tis the advice that the oldest Parliament-man among you can give you; and so, God bless you!
„Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.“
— Haruki Murakami, book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
„Paper is poverty,… it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.“
— Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States of America 1743 - 1826
Letter to Colonel Edward Carrington (27 May 1788) ME 7:36
1780s
„There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.“
— Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994
Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
„When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.“
— Artemus Ward American writer 1834 - 1867
— Oswald Spengler, book The Decline of the West
Source: Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, pp. 401–02 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.49906/page/n893/mode/2up
Der Untergang des Abendlandes, Welthistorische Perspektiven (1922)
The Decline of the West (1918, 1923)
— Alexis De Tocqueville French political thinker and historian 1805 - 1859
This is a variant expression of a sentiment which is often attributed to Tocqueville or Alexander Fraser Tytler, but the earliest known occurrence is as an unsourced attribution to Tytler in "This is the Hard Core of Freedom" by Elmer T. Peterson in The Daily Oklahoman (9 December 1951): "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy."
Misattributed
Variant: The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.
„I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.“
— Mahatma Gandhi pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India 1869 - 1948
Part II, Chapter 19, Natal Indian Congress
1920s, An Autobiography (1927)
— George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax English politician 1633 - 1695
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
„When a fellow says, "It hain't the money, but th' principle o' the thing," it's th' money.“
— Kin Hubbard cartoonist 1868 - 1930
Hoss Sense and Nonsense (1926).
As quoted in The American Treasury, 1455-1955 (1955) by Clifton Fadiman, p. 993.
Variant: When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money.
— John Prebble British writer 1915 - 2001
John Prebble, in Disaster at Dundee http://books.google.co.in/books?id=WSxIAAAAMAAJ, 1956. p. 16.
— Dave Barry American writer 1947
Column for week of February 29, 1992 http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HgBOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5osDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5149,5086013&dq=dave-barry+pie+bake&hl=en
Columns and articles
— Beverly White American politician 1928 - 2021
As quoted in The Salt Lake Tribune https://archive.ph/jzPX2 (November 1, 1990)