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 DEBATE

DEBATE (See Argument)



{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. | author = Alex. Hamilton | work = Letter to Robert Morris. April 30, 1781. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Wilkerson) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about "a public debt being a public blessing"; that the stock representing it was a DECAY creation of active capital for the aliment of commerce, manufactures and agriculture. Thomas Jefferson—On Public Debts. Letter to John W. Epps. Nov. 6, 1813. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Wilkerson}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid, Discharged, perchance with greater ease than made. Quarles—Emblems. | place = Bk. II. Emblem 13. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 181 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Debtes et mensonges sont ordinairement ensemble rallies. Debts and lies are generally mixed together. Rabelais—Pantagruel. | place = Bk. III. Ch. V. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 181 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Our national debt a national blessing. Samuel Wilkerson. Used as a broadside issued by Jay Cooke, June, 1865. Qualified by H. C. Fahnstock, "How our national debt may be a national blessing." | seealso = (See also {{sc|Hamilton, Jefferson) w DECAY You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one? You have the letters Cadmus gave— Think ye he meant them for a slave? Byron—Dora Juan. Canto III. St. 86. 10. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 181 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A gilded halo hovering round decay. | author = Byron | work = Giaour. L. 100. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 181 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires;— As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away. Thomas Carew—Disdain Returned. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 181 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. | author = Cowper | work = Stanzas Subjoined to a Bill of Mortality. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Two Gentlemen of Verona}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away. | author = Samuel Johnson | work = Vanity of Human Wishes. L. 293. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 181 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = There seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas; even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive, so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercises of the senses, or reflection on those kinds of objects which at first occasioned them, the print wears out, and at last there remains nothing to be seen. Locke—Human Understanding. | place = Bk. II. Ch. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 181 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = All that's bright must fade,— The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest. Moore—National Airs. Indian Air. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 181 }}  {{block center/e}}