treasury quotes

And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them,Verily I say unto you,Thatthispoor widow hath cast more in, thanall they which have cast into the treasury: For all they did cast in oftheirabundance; but sheof her want did cast inall that she had, even all her living.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Mark12:42^4.

I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the programme which I most desired to see was the one described as'The Boneless Wonder'. My parents judged that the spectacle would be too revolting and demoralizing for my youthful eyes, and I have waited 50 years to see the boneless wonder sitting on theTreasury Bench.

- Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill
  Alluding to Ramsay MacDonald. Speech in the House of Commons, 28  Jan.

Troops always ready to act, my well-filled treasury, and the liveliness of my dispositionthese were my reasons for making war on MariaTheresa.

- the Great Frederick II
  Letter to Voltaire.

If theTreasury were to fill old bottles with banknotes, bury themat suitable depthsindisusedcoalmineswhich are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again†there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of the repercussions, thereal income of the community, and its capital wealth also, would probably becomea good deal greater than it actually is. It would, indeed, be more sensible to build houses and the like; but as there are political and practical difficulties in the way of this, the above would be better than nothing.

-John Maynard, 1st Baron Keynes (of Tilton)
  The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.