Margaret Thatcher ever perfectly correct:
Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the state has no source of money other than the money people earn themselves. If the state wishes to spend more, it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. And it is no good thinking that someone else will pay—that "someone else" is you.
There is no such thing as public money, there is only taxpayers' money.
Prosperity won't come by inventing more and more lavish public expenditure programs. You don't grow richer by ordering another chequebook from the bank.
No nation ever grew more prosperous by taxing its citizens beyond their capacity to pay.
We have a duty to make sure that every penny piece we raise in taxation is spent wisely and well.