On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As many as two out of every three Europeans who came to the colonies were debtors on arrival: they paid for their… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The aim of New Deals is to exterminate the class of creditors and thrust all men into that of debtors. It is… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The primary reason I'm in real estate, oil, gold, and silver is because the U.S. dollar has become the peso the world.… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent,… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among… — John Turner Copy Share Image
We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers lessen. We find only that… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
In social life, in the family government, in the Church, and in the State this is an acknowledged and invariable law. The… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
What various scenes, and O! what scenes of Woe, Are witness'd by that red and struggling beam! The fever'd patient, from his… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the Lord should give you power to raise the dead, He would give much less than He does when he bestows… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
What if I say that it is not unjust but according to law that when a woman gets into debt her husband… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
[We] mention the South China Sea, we mention North Korea, South Korea, we mention Ukraine. We could mention five others. Yemen, and… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
The bank's product is debt, because the banks want to make sure that they can get paid for the debt. But ultimately… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
See the investment world as an ocean and buy where you get the most value for your money. Right now the value… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
Free-will doctrine-what does it? It magnifies man into God. It declares God's purposes a nullity, since they cannot be carried out unless… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where… — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image