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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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386 |
AUTHOR:
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Abraham Lincoln (180965) |
QUOTATION:
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As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from—so must it be with a government. |
ATTRIBUTION:
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN, campaign circular from Whig Committee, March 4, 1843.The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 1, p. 311 (1953). |
SUBJECTS:
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Debt |
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