by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 17, 2013 | Debt, Founders, George Washington, President, Quotes
“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 have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen whic.” George...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 17, 2013 | Debt, Quotes
“I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I’m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can’t reduce (the debt) any more.” Allan Greenspan, ex-Federal Reserve...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 17, 2013 | Debt, Quotes
“Debt is the slavery of the free.” Publilius Syrus, Roman author, 1st century, BC.
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 17, 2013 | Debt, Founders, James Madison, President, Quotes
“I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater curse than any other”, James Madison
by Mike Van Schoiack | Mar 17, 2013 | Education, Founders, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“The qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. They are the result of habit and long training.” Thomas Jefferson letter to Edward Everett, 1824 March 27.
