"It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse."
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"Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain."
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"Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do."
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"The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design."
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"Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government."
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"We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars."
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"Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect."
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"A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay."
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"Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it"
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"[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt."
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"Public debt [is] a burden on all the people."
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"When you are in debt, then you are a slave."
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"Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even to its last Farthing, its contributors therefore to the public Exigencies are not to be considered a Benefit on the Public, entitling the Contributors to the Distinctions of Honor and Power, but as the Return of an Obligation previously received, or as payment for a just Debt."
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"It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts."
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"It's a bit much describing it as a moral challenge from a government that's tripled the deficit and added $100 billion to net debt."
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"You're nothing in America if you don't have debt."
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"Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt."
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"I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know."
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"Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us."
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"Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful."
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