Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 795 |
| AUTHOR: | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 |
| QUOTATION: | The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt, the mobs should be forced to work and not depend on government for subsistence. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Attributed to This passage was reprinted in U.S. News & World Report, July 29, 1968, p. 15. Still later, a contributor reported this to The Review of the News, June 30, 1971, p. 19, and he also attributed this to Cicero. No evidence has been found to confirm that Cicero said these words, and it is almost certainly spurious. |
| SUBJECTS: | Government spending |