Millions

Famous quotes containing the word millions:

    “It is no part of the functions of the National Government to find employment for the people, and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for his purpose, we should only be taxing 40 millions of people to keep a few thousand employed.”
    —James A. Garfield (1831–1881)

    “... the yearly expenses of the existing religious system ... exceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what? Things unseen and causes unknown!... Twenty millions would more than suffice to make us wise; and alas! do they not more than suffice to make us foolish?”
    —Frances Wright (1795–1852)

    “One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify, my good fellow.”
    —Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977)