Public Debt

Famous quotes containing the words public and/or debt:

“Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

“They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)