Treasury Quotes

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

  Will Rogers

  Country, Inspiration, Hamilton

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.

  Alexander Fraser Tytler

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

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• It makes a difference who the treasury secretary is.

  Warren Buffett

  Differences, Making A Difference, Secretary

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Memories, Philosophical, Intriguing

  "On the Orator". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 5, 55 BCE.

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• Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Wealth, Ifs

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Father Goriot”, p.75, Library of Alexandria

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• The more cash that builds up in the treasury, the greater the pressure to piss it away.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing, Cash, Pressure

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.

  James Monroe

  States, Made, Payment

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Rome, Land, Political

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• The big treasury is an ocean of infinite creativity. It's a creativity that creates everything that is a thing - it's mighty powerful creativity.

  David Lynch

  Powerful, Ocean, Creativity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation.

  Torkom Saraydarian

  Creativity, Consciousness, States

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• We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrongsomebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promisesI say after eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we startedAnd an enormous debt to boot!

  Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

  Country, Money, Jobs

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• All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.

  Prince Philip

  Business, Instinct, Natural

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• Behind each biography there should always be a rich treasury of unformulated knowledge, a tapestry that has not been unrolled.

  Iris Origo

  Biographies, Rich, Should

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• How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department!

  Ludwig von Mises

  Art, Government, World

  Ludwig von Mises (2013). “The Theory of Money and Credit”, p.418, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.

  Edmund Burke

  Taken, Common, Graves

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• Printing up extra money - with no backing - used to be the sort of thing only counterfeiters did. Now it is done by the central bankers and Treasury Secretaries themselves. They don't apologize for it. They don't hang their heads and contemplate blowing their brains out. Instead, they're proud of it... announcing that they 'saved civilization,' or some such claptrap.

  Bill Bonner

  Civilization, Brain, Proud

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• I would say it's more important who the treasury secretary is than who the vice president is. If you want to have a debate here, I'd like a debate between potential treasury secretaries than the vice presidential debate.

  Warren Buffett

  Presidential, Important, Vices

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• The White House - now shares the same name as the new government center in Moscow. The name originally comes from Egypt. The White and Red Houses of the late first dynasty were departments that officiated for the will of pharaoh. The second most important state building in Egypt was the treasury. It was known as Per Hetch, meaning "White House."

  Michael Tsarion

  Names, White, Government

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• Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.

  Mark Twain

  Fire, Heaven, Looks

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.223, GENERAL PRESS

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• The discrepancy between equity earnings yields and Treasury yields is at an all time high

  John Paulson

  Yield, Discrepancies Between, Earning

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• I rang my friend Jim Wolfensohn, who was then running a private commercial bank in New York. I said, "Come up to Vancouver", and he did. I put my proposition to him. He said, "I think it could work." I said, "Will you help us?" He said, "Yes." So, I set aside senior people in our treasury and they worked with Wolfensohn and the investment sanctions were applied. And that's what brought the regime down. The last South African Finance Minister, Barend du Plessis, went on record as saying that it was the investment sanctions that put the final nail in the coffin of apartheid.

  Bob Hawke

  Senior, Running, New York

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• God's treasury where He keeps His children's gifts will be like many a mother's store of relics of her children, full of things of no value to others, but precious in His eyes for the love's sake that was in them.

  Francois Fenelon

  God, Mother, Children

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.262, 1895.

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• Heaven - the treasury of everlasting life.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Everlasting, Everlasting Life

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• By adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts, and exchanges. The financing of all public enterprises, the maintenance of stable government and ordered progress, and the conduct of the Treasury will become matters of practical administration. The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own government.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, Long, People

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• Look at those hedge funds - you think they can wait? They don't know how to wait! I have sat for years at a time with $10 to $12 million in treasuries or municipals, just waiting, waiting...As Jesse Livermore said, 'The big money is not in the buying and selling...but in the waiting.'

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Years, Waiting

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