Their ordinary revenues, and even some extraordinary taxes, will not answer to our reimbursements; and yet we have occasion for them.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
He thinks purchasers of the debt could be found, with a sacrifice of a small part of the capital, and a postponement be obtained of some of the first reimbursements.
"Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson"
Thomas Jefferson
These payments and reimbursements of the funded debt, with those which had been made in the four years and a half preceding, will at the close of the present year have extinguished upward of $23 millions of principal.
"State of the Union Addresses of Thomas Jefferson"
Thomas Jefferson