Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper No. 31, 1788

“Imagination may range at pleasure till it gets bewildered amidst the labyrinths of an enchanted castle, and knows not on which side to turn to extricate itself from the perplexities in to which it has so rashly adventured.”

Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper No. 7, 1787

“[Delinquencies in payment result from] the reluctance with which men commonly part with money for purposes that have outlived the exigencies which produced them and interfere with the supply of immediate wants."

G. Cochrane, Letter to Unk., 1766

"I should explain to your Lordship what is meant by crackers; a name they have got from being great boasters; they are a lawless set of rascalls on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia, who often change their places of abode."