Government Debt quotes
8 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude."
"The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife."
"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt."
"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."
"As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit."
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"I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom."
"..avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear."