Debt Quote by Alexander Hamilton Download Open image “[S]ound policy condemns the practice of accumulating debts.” — Alexander Hamilton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Debt Policy Practice
The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves. — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I regret, as much as any member, the unavoidable weight and duration of the burdens to be imposed; having never been a proselyte to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The call for debt cancellation is welcome, but debt does not just go away. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“At the Bank of Consequences there are no overdraft facilities, and debts are called in as soon as they are noticed” — Peter Wells Copy Share Image
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain. — Moliere Copy Share Image
“I am apprehensive, Sir, that in the warmth of my feelings, I may have uttered expressions, which were too vehement. If such has been… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
[W]ar is a question, under our constitution, not of Executive, but of Legislative cognizance. It belongs to Congress to say whether the Nation shall… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Though a wide ocean separates the United States from Europe, yet there are various considerations that warn us against an excess of confidence or… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is an unquestionable truth, that the body of the people in every country desire sincerely its prosperity. But it is equally unquestionable that… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There are still to be found visionary or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is one thing to be subordinate to the laws, and another [for the Executive] to be dependent on the legislative body. The first… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon his mind.… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence, it answers… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is perhaps my greatest hope, Mr. President, that some day we'll consider tax and spending measures with no one else in mind but… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit. — Martha Roby Copy Share Image
Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
“The human eye is restricted to see the useen, because there’s a price to be paid to the rulers of this image and if… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image