Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) artist, author, esotericist
Maitreya's Teachings - The Laws of Life (2005)
Maitreya's Teachings - The Laws of Life (2005)
Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) artist, author, esotericist
Maitreya's Teachings - The Laws of Life (2005)
G. Gordon Liddy (1930) American lawyer in Watergate scandal
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/
“I have written this book to discharge a debt.”
Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) United States Baptist theologian
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.
“Taking out a commission of bankruptcy is a well-known mode of recovering a debt.”
Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet (1763–1841) British judge
Guthrie v. Fisk (1824), 3 B & C. 183.
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2016, July, This Week Interview (July 30, 2016)
“We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.”
John Buchan (1875–1940) British politician
Address to the people of Canada on the coronation of George VI (12 May 1937)
“To pay off the debt was to destroy the money supply.”
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat
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.
“There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.”
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Of those whom God is slow to punish
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)