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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 386 |
| AUTHOR: | Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) |
| QUOTATION: | As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from—so must it be with a government. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | ABRAHAM LINCOLN, campaign circular from Whig Committee, March 4, 1843.—The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 1, p. 311 (1953). |
| SUBJECTS: | Debt |
| WORKS: | Abraham Lincoln Collection |
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