by Mike Van Schoiack | Jan 13, 2015 | Debt, Quotes, Subject
“Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.” – William Cobbett
by Mike Van Schoiack | Jan 13, 2015 | Debt, Founders, John Adams, Quotes, Subject
“The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to be careful to prevent their growth in our own.” – John Adams, Courtesy of TheForgottenAmerican
by Mike Van Schoiack | Jan 13, 2015 | Ben Franklin, Debt, Founders, Quotes, Subject
“When you run in debt; you give to another power over your liberty.” – Benjamin Franklin
by Mike Van Schoiack | Jan 13, 2015 | Debt, Founders, James Madison, Quotes, Subject
“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, Courtesy of TheForgottenAmerican
by Mike Van Schoiack | Jan 13, 2015 | Debt, Founders, George Washington, Quotes, Subject
“Avoid occasions of expense. . . and avoid likewise the accumulation of debt not only by shunning occasions of expense but by vigorous exertions to discharge the debts, not throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear.” –...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Jan 13, 2015 | Debt, Founders, Quotes, Subject, Thomas Jefferson
“A departure from principle becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering… And the fore horse of this frightful...
