Benjamin Harrison Quotes

… war is a matter not so much of arms as of money

Endless money forms the sinews of war. Nervi belli pecunia infinita.

When is the last time we had a tax cut before going to war?

Were the expense of war to be defrayed always by a revenue raised within the year ... wars would in general be more speedily concluded, and less wantonly undertaken

Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.

Well, where is the money? Show me the money? Our allies have put up a few billion dollars, but the American taxpayer has been required to shoulder the burden of this war.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.

For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.

When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.

... when you have a draft you're more likely to go to war than if you have to pay for a volunteer army. A draft lowers the cost for the wealthy because the people who are important don't have their children going off and they're also not paying as much in taxes.

Our guns are not called upon to hurl huge projectiles each one of which costs as much as the construction of a happy home.

The key to winning a battle is to not burden the general population with military expenses

Wars cost money.

It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm.

All excess income should go to win the war [WWII].

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.

We pay for the navy, and we have no commerce for the navy to protect; we pay for the army, and we loathe and execrate the work upon which it has been engaged.

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes.

It's a tough time my friends. We need to make sacrifices to ensure our troops have the tools they need in order to get the job done. This budget will help us win the War on Terror.

We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.

These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things.