“Third World debt — The debt will be written off. There is no possibility of doing anything else. There is no way in which this debt can be recovered.”

As quoted in "The Best Of The Rest: 20 More Quotes About Liberals" at Right Wing News (24 November 2010) http://rightwingnews.com/quotes/the-best-of-the-rest-20-more-quotes-about-liberals/

Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Introduction, p.xv
Context: I have written this book to discharge a debt. For eleven years I was pastor among the working people on the West Side of New York City.... I have never ceased to feel that I owe help to the plain people who were my friends. If this book in some far-off way helps to ease the pressure that bears them down and increases the forces that bear them up, I shall meet the Master of my life with better confidence.

Guthrie v. Fisk (1824), 3 B & C. 183.

2010s, 2016, July, This Week Interview (July 30, 2016)

Address to the people of Canada on the coronation of George VI (12 May 1937)

Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter VIII, The Great Compromise, p. 90
Context: In numerous years following the war the Federal government ran a heavy surplus. It could not pay off it's debt, retire its securities, because to do so meant there would be no bonds to back the national bank notes. To pay off the debt was to destroy the money supply.

2010s, 2016, June

Of those whom God is slow to punish
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

At Last, Chapter 7