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2067. DEBT (United States), Perpetuation of.—
As the doctrine is that a public debt
is a public blessing, so they think a perpetual
one is a perpetual blessing, and therefore
wish to make it so large that we can never
pay it off.—
To Nicholas Lewis. Washington ed. iii, 348.
Ford ed., v, 505.
(Pa.,
April. 1792)
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