...symptoms, but a major operation for the eradication at the source of a large number of social diseases. Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money....temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody. But the results of extravagance are ruinous. The property of the country, like the freedom of the country,...

...liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it. — Woodrow Wilson. Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money....temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody. — Calvin Coolidge. I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I...

...never be, efficiently handled by Government bureaucrats. As former Presiden; Calvin Coolidge put it : "Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public...temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody." And this, gentlemen, precisely, is what is going on in the foreign aid program. After doling out more...

...never be, efficiently handled by Government bureaucrats. As former President Calvin Coolidge put it: "Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public...temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody." And this, gentlemen, precisely, is what is going on in the foreign aid program. After doling out more...

...committee, I like to think a majority of us, who pride ourselves on what we can save the taxpayers by our actions on this committee rather than extolling the...expenditure of public money. It does not appear to oelong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody." / kmounts approved by...

...will please a few and astonish the rest." I often think about what Calvin Coolidge once said. He said, "Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public...temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody." The CHAIRMAN. Mr. McSpadden. Mr. MCSPADDEN. I have no quotes, Mr. Chairman. The CHAIRMAN. I want to...

...members of this committee and the Members of the House to the old saying which goes something like this: Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money....temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody. This offers the temptation to spend much more — and I repeat — spend much more than might otherwise...

...Otto Passman has put it well. He said : "Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money. Your money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The...temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody." The situation we are contemplating here is a classic illustration of that principle. The siren song...

...unrest but favorable governmental response is lacking. President Calvin Coolidge once had this lo say: "Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money It does not appear to belong to anyone and there is an overwhelming desire to FIG. 15 PH C«PIT« SPENDING IT FCDIUL, ST»Tl. AND LOCJU,...

...1925.— Coolidge, Foundations of the Republic, p. 201 (1926). 799 Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody....temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody. Attributed to CALVIN COOLIDGE.— Readers Digest, June 1960, p. 178. Unverified. 800 A billion here,...