To: ClearCase_guy
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, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it; avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear.
- GEORGE WASHINGTON, Farewell Address, Sep. 17, 1796
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04/26/2014 11:58:49 AM PDT by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: cripplecreek
The twitter version: Peace through superior firepower; and remember: “The borrower is servant to the lender”.
Alternative Twitter version: “If you want peace, prepare for war, and pay your debts.
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