Attention Quote by Alexander Hamilton

Establish that a Government may decline a provision for its debts, though able to make it, and you overthrow all public morality, you unhinge…

— Alexander Hamilton

The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to…

— Anonymous

It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure…

— 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

“Will the adoption of this new plan pay our debts! This, Sir, is a plain question. It is inferred, that our grievances are to…

— Patrick Henry

I consider it…as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the Government…and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitution is known…

— James Madison

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

There are only two honest ways to reduce our debt: cut spending or raise revenues.

— Dick Durbin

The only way to reduce our national debt is to grow the economy and cut spending. We have no idea how our money is…

— Carly Fiorina

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

— Wendell Phillips

A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing; it will be powerfull cement of our union. It…

— Alexander Hamilton

“One of the advantages of living in a constitutional federal republic is that we have the ability, if not the duty, as citizens to…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour