Famous quotes containing the words sovereign, debt and/or crisis:
“Alien. An American sovereign in his probationary state.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)
“Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with philosophy is not even sincerely professed in our colleges. The consequence is, that while he is reading Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Say, he runs his father in debt irretrievably.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A crisis unmasks everyone.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)