Famous quotes containing the words national and/or debt:
“I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life ... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)
“This is the debt I pay
Just for one riotous day,”
—Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)