No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance.
Thomas PaineIt is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.
Thomas PaineLet it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.
Thomas Paine