[Catalonia]

Give the public unfettered access to the treasury, and the nation will eventually be broke.

Didn't de Toqueville say something to this effect way back in the 19th century?

[Alberta's Child]

He probably did. I'm not really familiar with his works, so I may have remembered this from a quote that someone else posted.

Sometimes it's hard for me to avoid plagiarizing -- I remember a lot of things like this without ever remembering where they are from. LOL.