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Quote by Wilfrid Laurier
It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle

It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it. – Wilfrid Laurier

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Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children. – Wilfrid Laurier

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Future
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I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization. – Wilfrid Laurier

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Faith
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For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business. – Wilfrid Laurier

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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. – Honore de Balzac

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finance

I personally believe that theres going to be a good case for the government preserving some type of guarantee to make sure that people have the ability to borrow to finance a house even in a very damaging recession. I think theres going to be a good case for that. – Timothy Geithner

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finance

We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back. – Lee Iacocca

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One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute. – William Feather

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