Debt Quotes
1181 quotes by 770 authors
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Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang Köhler. I need not emphasize my debts to these…
— Kurt Lewin
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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
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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
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Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.
— Barack Obama
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Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.
— Josh Billings
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
— Thomas Carlyle
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...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
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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
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A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.
— Hans F. Sennholz
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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
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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
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Wars are made to make debt.
— Ezra Pound
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It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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