A Public Debt Is A Kind Of Anchor In The Storm; But If The Anchor Be Too Heavy For The Vessel, She Will Be Sunk By That Very Weight Which Was Intended For Her Preservation.

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A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be
too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which
was intended for her preservation.
-- Colton

A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.
-- Colto...
You're all sail and no anchor.
Women and God are the two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked.
Frederick William Robertson (1816-1853) "Sermons" (1865)...
I float like an anchor and sting like a moth.
I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet devised by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.
-- Thomas Jefferso...
What distinguishes an IBM-PC from a boat anchor? Segment registers.
Better to lose the anchor than the whole ship. Dutch Proverb
And now the sequence of events in no particular order. -- Dan Rather, television news ancho

A Public Debt Is A Kind Of Anchor In The Storm; But If The Anchor Be Too Heavy For The Vessel, She Will Be Sunk By That Very Weight Which Was Intended For Her Preservation.

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