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...When we discuss the debts owed us by foreign governments we ought to keep in mind, and they ought to keep in mind, that we are not talking about something that is the accumulated property of the American Treasury; that we are discussing a debt which ultimately they owe to the people from whom the U. S. Government borrowed; that, in a sense, we Senators are the indorsees for them, and that if they fail in their promise the burden will fall on the American people...
Keep your eyes open and observe! Stop such insinuations-they are not worthy of space in TIME. I really believe you owe those French tennis stars an apology. How about...
...life was given me by Mr. House, inciting ambition to be something in the world; inciting ambition to live a straight life and keep sober and to be industrious, and that was the lecture I received from Mr. House, and I have never forgotten it; and I owe to him a statement of this little angle of his life...
...plan of the Harvard Fund to promote the habit among Harvard men of making annual return to the University of a part, even though small, of the great debt which they owe to it is thoroughly praiseworthy...
...survey as a whole is dominated by the belief that facts have a reforming power of their own. Civic organizations of Cleveland who are responsible for this undertaking may take just pride in their work, and all those interested in the improvement of the administration of criminal justice owe them a large debt of gratitude...