Able Quote by Alexander Hamilton

If the Nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crises, it lives beyond its income for a year…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

For, when the credit of a country is in any degree questionable, it never fails to give on extravagant premium, in one shape or…

— Alexander Hamilton

It is presumable that no country will be able to borrow of foreigners upon better terms than the United States, because none can, perhaps,…

— Alexander Hamilton

There can be no time, no state of things, in which Credit is not essential to a Nation.

— Alexander Hamilton

I can scarcely contemplate a greater calamity that could befall this country, than be loaded with a debt exceeding their ability ever to discharge.…

— Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from…

— Abraham Lincoln

The fact that oppressive and corrupt regimes can borrow money in the name of the whole country means that the country's future generations will…

— Thomas Pogge

Financial crises require governments.

— Timothy Geithner

A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.

— Anonymous

The power of creating new funds upon new objects of taxation, by its own authority, would enable the national government to borrow as far…

— Alexander Hamilton

No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no…

— Thomas Paine

“today a country’s credit rating is far more important to its economic well-being than are its natural resources.”

— Yuval Noah Harari