Quotes About Debt

Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.

Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.

All must pay the debt of nature.

When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.

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

What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

I must express my protest against continually increasing the debt without taking positive steps to slow its growth.

Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself and then deliberately gets into.

Earned money brings you security, borrowed money gets you slavery.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing -- and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

Us middle class...never have to worry about having old furniture to point out to our friends. We buy it on payments and before it's paid for it's plenty antique.

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

You can tell a lot about a country which refers to the Royal Mint and the National Debt.

Duty looks at life as a debt to be paid; love sees life as a debt to be collected. Duty is ever paying assessments; love is constantly counting its premiums.

It is true, Christian, the debt thou owest to God must be paid in good and lawful money, but for thy comfort, here Christ is thy paymaster. Send

When, and only when, you've gotten rid of all your debt are you truly saving for retirement.

The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor pay a dollar twice as large as he borrowed is lauded as the friend of a sound currency. The man who wants the people to destroy the Government is an anarchist, but the man who wants the Government to destroy the people is a patriot.

She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.

Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds.

Darwinians have always owed their readers a translation manual that would "cash" the teleological language which Darwinians avail themselves of without restraint in explaining particular adaptations, into the non-teleological language which their own theory of adaptation requires. But they have never paid, or even tried to pay, this debt.

Darwinians, then, have never paid, or even acknowledged, the debt they have all along owed the public: a reconciliation of their teleological explanations of particular adaptations with their non-teleological explanation of adaptation in general. And not only have they never paid this debt: they have in fact become progressively less conscious, with time, of the fact that they owe this debt. This

In fact, wealth-maximizing individuals compare the after-tax costs of debt with the after-tax returns from bonds, liquidating bond positions to pay off loans when the costs of debt exceed the returns from bonds. Rational investors consider liability positions when making asset allocations.

For thousands of years, violent men have been able to tell their victims that those victims owe them something. If nothing else, they "owe them their lives" (a telling phrase) because they haven't been killed.