| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 797 |
| AUTHOR: | Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) |
| QUOTATION: | The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion dollars of navy, half a billion of farm relief, [etc.] … the people will have to furnish more revenue by paying more taxes. It is for them, through their Congress, to decide how far they wish to go. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | CALVIN COOLIDGE, syndicated column, New York Herald Tribune, August 5, 1930, p. 1. |
| SUBJECTS: | Government spending |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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