Debt Quotes

I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared

It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt.

While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

It's not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income that causes trouble.

The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?

If everybody (traded his car for a horse) they would be out of debt in a couple of years. Just think, no gas, no tires, no roads to pay for.

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house.

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word.

Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

Right now the problem in Thailand is we have high debt, but we don't know how to earn the new source of revenue back to Thailand. This is my job.

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

Posterity does not pay off anything of the national debt. Each administration adds to the debt left to it, and the promise of liquidation implied in every bond issue is a false promise.

[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt.

Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?

Forgiveness is simply a decision to cancel a debt.

Florida feels we owe a great debt to our neighboring states.

Nobody gets killed when they're happy. It always starts with an argument, or a debt.

A lower interest rate doesn't make a debt go away.

It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.

Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life.

If Koboi defeats and presumably murders us both then you can consider the debt null and void.

We're not going to default. We just won't default. I mean, there are ways of not defaulting even if you don't raise the debt ceiling, and even if you don't fund the government.

The US Debt is the single biggest threat I see to innovation in American business.

The wages of Gin is Debt.

There's nothing as short as short-term debt.

Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it

Don't be like me. Look at me: monogamous, in shape, no debt, sober... I'm dead inside.

I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. … And an enormous debt to boot!

Too many of us never understand what we owe to our dear ones until there remains no further opportunity of paying love's debt.

The refunding of the national debt at a lower rate of interest should be accomplished without compelling the withdrawal of the national-bank notes, and thus disturbing the business of the country.

Obama called on Americans to have more grandchildren. Probably so there's more of them to pay off our debt.

A point must be repeated: only the pathological weakness of the financial memory...allows us to believe that the modern experience of....debt...is in any way a new phenomenon.

New Zealand as a whole needs to save more, spend less and reduce our reliance on foreign debt.

Trying to solve the problem by creating more debt is analogous to trying to stop being an alcoholic by going on a bender down at the corner bar.

I use a "Debt Dash" approach to paying off debt. I recommend people focus on paying off the debt with the lowest balance first. So if the primary has less debt you would focus on that.

The ingenious slogan that the public debt does not matter because 'we owe it to ourselves' is clearly absurd.

Debt is not intrinsically bad. But I make clear to my children that they should only borrow as much as they will be able to pay back.

You've got to have tax reform to get faster economic growth. Faster economic growth is necessary for us to get our debt under control.

The share price must be less than book value. Preferably it will be less than net working capital less long term debt.

Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars.

Please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or next you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is the treacherous first step toward complete moral degradation.

There are four headwinds that are just hitting the American economy in the face: They're demographics, education, debt and inequality. They're powerful enough to cut growth in half.

Congratulations on your job at the bank! Yes. You work for the bank. After taxes, your largest expense is your mortgage and credit-card debt.

Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.

A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.