Belonging Quote by Andrew Jackson

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

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

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

— Wendell Phillips

Under its current form, that is imperialism-controlled, debt is a cleverly managed re-conquest of Africa, aiming at subjugating its growth and development through foreign…

— Thomas Sankara

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the…

— Thomas Jefferson

I fully believe that the U.S. has the obligation to honor its debt.

— Steve Mnuchin

“Once a nation parts with the control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes that nation's laws. Usury, once in control,…

— William Lyon MacKenzie

A debt ... is just an exchange that has not been brought to completion.

— David Graeber

Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa

— Thomas Sankara

OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in the minds…

— Ambrose Bierce

There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.

— Vladimir Putin

Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.

— Alexander Hamilton