Quotes About Debt

For Madison, on the other hand, "a Public Debt is a Public curse," and "in a Representative Government greater than in any other."26

Every year, on the Emperor's birthday, he makes a resolution to begin a new life and not get into debt. And so he gets drunk. And comes home late at night, stands in the kitchen with drawn sword, and commands an entire regiment. The pots are platoons, the teacups are units, the plates are companies. Simon Demant is a colonel, a colonel in the service of Franz Joseph I.

Tigerclaw's tail curled high above his back. "You owe me more than one," he purred cheerfully. "You owe me your life!

You saved my life once, Firestar. I'll never be able to repay you for that. But if trouble with Tigerstar comes, I'll be proud to stand with the warriors of ThunderClan and fight him to the death.

Once they got finished slapping you with pay deductions, late fees, and interest penalties, you wound up owing them more each month, instead of less. Once you made the mistake of getting yourself indentured, you would probably remain indentured for life. A lot of people didn't seem to mind this, though. They thought of it as job security.

No government could last more than a month without having to knock on the door of the banks in order to pay its current expenses. If the banks were to refuse, the government would go bankrupt.

I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them.

What do you get, another day older and deeper in dept

It ain't really Czechoslovakian,' I said, coughing. 'We used to call it the Cheque. Like, you drink it up now, you pay for it later.

Today you ain't no kind of horn player you don't acknowledge some debt to Hieronymus Falk. He was one of the pioneers: a German Louis Armstrong, if you will.

Death is a debt we all must pay.

ECCLES: That is what our money system is. If there were no debts in our money system, there wouldn't be any money.

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

I am relieved that I can pay back my school loans.

Modern economies rely on debt, which encourages productivity and growth. But that system of credit requires consequences for debtors who default.

No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.

I am confident that we can overcome this crisis, provided that we remain united in our effort to address our debt and competitiveness problems. And I think that the Greek people are united; it's important also that the political forces are united in line with the will of the Greek people.

As long as the dollar remains in high esteem as a trade currency, America can continue to spend more than it earns. But when the day arrives - as it certainly must - when the dollar tumbles and foreigners no longer want it, the free ride will be over.

The idea that growth will remedy our debts is so addictive for politicians, but the citizens end up paying the price.

Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.

Remember that credit is money.

We owe the Greatest Generation a debt we can never fully repay.

I owe a debt to my country 800 times greater than I could ever repay.

As with oil, water exploitation raises an inter-generational debt that will be hard to repay.