Charles G. Dawes

“Hell and Maria, I'm not going to stay here and listen to this.”

“The first lesson in economics is scarcity. There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it.”

“The budget idea, I may admit, is a sort of obsession with me. I believe in budgets.”

“We were trying to get a settlement on business principles.”

“I think I know a little about the psychology of the Senate. I have been there myself.”

“The business of the United States is the business of the United States.”

“Economy is the art of making the most of life.”

“The greatest of all human benefits, that, at least, without which no other benefit can be truly enjoyed, is independence.”