The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense and great expense may be an essential part in true economy.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us really would looking back wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved despite the government's false claims.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first therefore to seek them blindfold and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism Islam or other faiths.

Even in a time of fiscal austerity education is more than just an expense.

Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care education and incarceration expenses.

My father is a real idealist and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning my father would spare no expense.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world and ten to one but she has the means of settling well without further expense to anybody.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.

Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case it is usually at the expense of others. In other words it is the opposite of idealism.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger the cost of hatred the waste of spirits.

Liberal that I am I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils for example when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on in part by medical expenses.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.