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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 383
AUTHOR: Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
QUOTATION: I, however, place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.
ATTRIBUTION: THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to William Plumer, July 21, 1816.—The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Andrew A. Lipscomb, vol. 15, p. 47 (1903).
SUBJECTS: Debt