Political Quotes

On the record
There can be no other reason for this higher price than the superior credit enjoyed by Massachusetts; and thus again is Public Faith exalted.
Said by
Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner discusses how Massachusetts' superior credit influences bond pricing.

Share

More from Charles Sumner

By Perpetual Peace Kant understood a condition of nations where there could be no fear of War; and this condition, he said, was demanded by reason, which, abhorring all War, as little adapted to establish right, must regard this final…

gutenberg.org

Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.

gutenberg.org

At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.

gutenberg.org

Other voices in this conversation