"If the nation is living within its income, its credit is good.  If in some crisis it lives beyond its income for a year or two it can usually borrow temporarily on reasonable terms.  But if, like the spendthrift, it throws discretion to the winds, is willing to make no sacrifice at all in spending, extends its taxing to the limit of the people's power to pay, and continues to pile up deficits, it is on the road to bankruptcy." - Franklin D. Roosevelt (1932)

"Necessity never made a good bargain."  -Benjamin Franklin

"Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair."  - Sam Ewing (former pro baseball player)