Quotes About Coffers

While vast sums of money are being siphoned off into hidden [military] coffers, Americas schools, hospitals and public services are facing cutbacks and closures.

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.

The bottom line is that weather events not only threaten private property and family budgets, but they also can decimate public resources and government coffers.

Smile, my beloved, like the gold smiles from my father's coffers.

the cricketer-prince Ranjitsinhji obliged his peasantry, in the midst of a crippling drought, to contribute to the British coffers during World War I; and as his state choked in the grip of famine, he literally burned up a month's revenues in a fireworks display for a visiting viceroy.

A few key points were well established. The Taliban imposed two religious taxes, ushr and zakat, on the opium economy. The taxes hit farmers, truckers, morphine makers, and smugglers. The tax rates were 10 and 20 percent, prescribed by the Koran, and so not subject to change. Therefore, as opium growing boomed in the south in 2006 and 2007, it was logical to conclude that the Taliban's coffers had also swelled.

Scripture, it says, opposes public assistance to the poor as a matter of principle—unless the money passes through church coffers.

After all, anything that drains corporate coffers is a loss of freedom--the God-given American freedom to exploit other human beings to make money.

A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers, thinks presently that he has a good deal of brains and is almost fit to be a statesman.

In the front first floor, a clerk who looked something between a publican and a rat-catcher — a large pale, puffed, swollen man — was attentively engaged with three or four people of shabby appearance, whom he treated as unceremoniously as everybody seemed to be treated who contributed to Mr. Jaggers's coffers.

Democracy, it has been said, can only exist until the voting populace discovers it can vote itself largesse from the public coffers. Though it is less often said; it also happens that the voting populace discovers—indeed it is educated to the notion—that it has the power to radically expand

Much of Europes wealth comes from the mineral riches of the new world, which fed the coffers of the monarchies of Europe.

See, the Serpent is taken from its hole, The secrets of Egypt's kings are bared. See, the residence is fearful from want. Men stir up strife unopposed. See, the land is tied up in gangs, The coward is emboldened to seize his goods. See, the Serpent the dead. He who could not make a coffin owns a tomb. See, those who owned tombs are cast on high ground, He who could not make a grave owns a treasury. See now, the transformations of people, He who did not build a hut is an owner of coffers.

Come up with me, American love.Kiss these secret stones with me.The torrential silver of the Urubambamakes the pollen fly to its golden cup.The hollow of the bindweed's maze,the petrified plant, the inflexible garland,soar above the silence of these mountain coffers.