| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 383 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Jefferson (17431826) |
| 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 |
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