You’ll find this list of quotes collected by Like Merchant Ships at Frugal Hacks – Cheerful Frugality Thinks Presidential:

In honor of Presidents’ Day, let me share a few presidential thoughts on frugality:

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. — Abraham Lincoln

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character. –Calvin Coolidge

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth, and pursue it steadily. Nothing but harmony, honesty, industry and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy nation. –George Washington

I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. –Thomas Jefferson

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then. –Dwight D. Eisenhower

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality. –John Tyler

Happy President’s Day!