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"There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials."
"Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore."
"The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive."
"We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us."
"Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions."
"It's curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you're saving money."
"A bargain ain't a bargain unless it's something you need."
"Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one"
"The public is not greatly interested in saving a little money on a purchase at the expense of service."
"Faith is a homely, private capital; as there are public savings-banks and poor funds, out of which in times of want we can relieve the necessities of individuals, so here the faithful take their coin in peace."
"Get your money in balance. One rule of thumb is 50/30/20. Spend about 50% of your money on must-haves - things like rent, car payments - and about 30% on wants, while 20% should go toward savings and paying down debt."
"Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise."
"Saving Private Ryan was probably the illest, sickest movie I've ever watched, and I didn't see anybody criticizing that one for violence."
"All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful"
"When it comes to saving England, Maggy is Ball's Deep"
"This is the national equivalent of having no savings, your credit card maxed out, you didn't renew your insurance, and now your house has burned down. The only way we can start to solve this is rolling back the tax cuts for the rich, which would save about $70 billion."
"Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old."
"Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices."
"Under a Labour government, there's virtually nowhere you can put your savings where they would be safe from the state. ... If you put money in a sock they'd probably nationalize socks."