Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.
Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS, WordStar International, 1991.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero, (Jan 3 106BC-3BC), Roman statesman, scholar, orator; He introduced Greek philosophy to ancient Rome; wrote De Republica.