[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt.

..avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the…

— George Washington

No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or…

— George Washington

Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the…

— George Washington

And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual,…

— Alexander Hamilton

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.

— John Adams

No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or…

— George Washington

To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.

— George Washington

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

— Thomas Jefferson

It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should, with the consent of the creditors, be remoulded into such a shape as will…

— Alexander Hamilton

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

— Benjamin Franklin

It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain…

— Thomas Jefferson

States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.

— Alexander Hamilton

Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every…

— James Madison

Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality-you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free…

— Alexander Hamilton

To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty,…

— Thomas Jefferson