Debt Quotes

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Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang KÃ¶hler. I need not emphasize my debts to these… — Kurt Lewin
The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for… — Freya Stark
Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice. — Barack Obama
Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into. — Josh Billings
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. — Thomas Carlyle
...pay your tithes and offerings out of honesty and integrity because they are God's rightful due...Paying tithing is not a token gift we are somehow… — Jeffrey R. Holland
The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill. — Hans F. Sennholz
Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.… — James Madison
Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized from age to… — Thomas Paine
Wars are made to make debt. — Ezra Pound
It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to… — Joseph Butler
We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know… — Mitch McConnell
There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him. — Thomas Jefferson
I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can be most useful… — Thomas Jefferson
The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a… — John Milton
If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For many of us gratitude to others comes with a sense of debt that can never be fully paid and therefore the things we are… — Michael Josephson

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