It is beginning to dawn on people that the influence of a nation is not measured by the size of its military budget, but by its industrial strength.

-Benn,Tony (Anthony Neil Wedgwood)
  In The Independent,18  Apr.

We are placing the burdens on the broadest shoulders. I made up my mind that, in forming the Budget, no cupboard should be barer, no lot should be harder to bear.

-Lloyd George (of Dwyfor), David, 1st Earl
  Speech on the People's Budget, London, 30  Jul.

Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well onpaper, suchasnational budgets or industrial balance sheets.

-Weil, Simone
La condition ouvrie'  re,'La rationalisation' (published1951).