| Alexander Hamilton - 1851 - 526 lapas
...matter of choice if we are not out of debt in twenty years, without at all encumbering the people. A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to...a national blessing. It will be a powerful cement of our Union. It will also create a necessity for keeping up taxation to a degree which, without being... | |
| Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1917 - 1062 lapas
...invested such savings with their own government. What Hamilton meant by his much-misunderstood assertion that "a national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing," was that the ties of political loyalty between government and citizen would be drawn closer by the... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 564 lapas
...matter of choice if we are not out of debt in twenty years, without at all encumbering the people. A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to...a national blessing. It will be a powerful cement of our Union. It will also create a necessity for keeping up taxation to a degree which, without being... | |
| Charles Franklin Dunbar, Frank William Taussig, Abbott Payson Usher, Alvin Harvey Hansen, William Leonard Crum, Edward Chamberlin, Arthur Eli Monroe - 1889 - 558 lapas
...tendency to increase real wealth by increasing activity.* In his letter to Morris in 1781, he had declared that " a national debt, if it is not excessive, will...a national blessing. It will be a powerful cement of the Union." f And in his Report on Public Credit he uses the same expression.J On this occasion,... | |
| William Graham Sumner - 1890 - 306 lapas
...before was dead, by means of funding. In his -bank scheme which he sent to Morris in 1781, he said : " A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to...a national blessing. It will be a powerful cement of our union." He added that Americans were too indolent, and that taxation would be a valuable spur... | |
| Wilbur Fisk Gordy, Willis Ira Twitchell - 1893 - 428 lapas
...to point out to your lordship that this is war. Charles F. Adams to Earl Russell, Sept 5, 1863. A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. Alexander Hamilton. Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute. Pinckney. We have met... | |
| Ugo Rabbeno - 1893 - 544 lapas
...stesso Sumner delle parole di Hamilton a pag. 149. « A national debt, if it is not eccessive, will he to us a national blessing. It will be a powerful cement to our union ». E queste parole, lo si noti bene, sono scritte nel 1781, cioè quando la nazione americana non... | |
| 1896 - 1224 lapas
...seal up the avenues of ill 7 Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill ! t. EMERSON Suum Cuique. . 26. That we shall die we know ; 'tis but the time And drawing days out, t «. ALEX. HAMILTON Letter to Robert Morris. April 30, 1781. At the time we were funding our national... | |
| David Josiah Brewer - 1899 - 498 lapas
...beginning to reappear above the subsiding National Debt a National Bleaaing Alexander Hamilton : A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. From a Letter to Robert Morris, April 301/1, 1781. Nobility of Ascent Henry Codman Potter :... | |
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