...As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit: one method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible ; avoiding occasions of expense, by cultivating peace; and remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger, frequently prevent much greater...

...As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible; avoiding...occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to hear. The execution of these maxims belongs to your representatives,...

...As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible; avoiding...occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear. The execution of these maxims belongs to your representatives,...

...» very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible; avoiding...occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burdens which we ourselves ought to bear. Economists generally regard the relationship of the debt...

..."As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it, is to use it as sparingly as possible; avoiding...greater disbursements to repel it; avoiding likewise the accumulations of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time...

...disbursements to repel it. Avoid the accumulation of Debt not only by avoiding occasions of Expence but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars may have occasionned; not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthens which we ourselves ought to bear....

...nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well-prepared to meet a foe." He said we should remember that "timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it." Closer to our own times, John Kennedy said: "The primary purpose of our arms is peace, not war. Our...

...appropriately for this week have quoted from his Farewell Address, in which he said: The nation must avoid the accumulation of debt not only by shunning occasions...vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debt, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden...

...by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debt, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear. A voice from 200 years ago to which we can only add "Amen."...

...needed to help a community recover from any disaster. We should heed these words of George Washington, "TIMELY DISBURSEMENTS TO PREPARE FOR DANGER FREQUENTLY PREVENT MUCH GREATER DISBURSEMENTS TO REPEL IT." Thank you for your attention. -6Mrs. SCHROEDER. Thank you very much. Mr. Suiter, I understand that...