Debt Quotes

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The president says we need to raise the debt ceiling because America pays its bills. No if we paid our bills we wouldn't have all… — Peter Schiff
As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
No duty is more imperative for the government than the duty it ;owes the people to furnish them with a sound and uniform currency, an… — Abraham Lincoln
Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of… — Camille Paglia
One by one, these governments came undone, and were forced into IMF tutelage (and national illegitimacy) by the careening oil prices, the debt imbroglio, and… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Comparatively, we are so much quicker to return favors and to pay our debts to mortals - and we should be responsive and grateful. But… — Neal A. Maxwell
The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been shown to generate… — John Ricard
Whereas our common past, out of Africa, saw a global diaspora of humankind, our common future depends on a global coming together and consensus, resulting… — Bob Brown
OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in the minds of… — Ambrose Bierce
No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an… — George Washington
But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that… — Thomas Jefferson
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 most… — Alexander Hamilton
It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure of… — Alexander Hamilton
And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual, anxious,… — Alexander Hamilton
The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning… — Thomas Jefferson
The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression. — Thomas Jefferson
As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to protect it from… — Alexander Hamilton
It is for all men that come into the world once to die; and after death the judgment! And since death is a debt that… — Richard Rumbold
As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity:… — Thomas Paine
I regret, as much as any member, the unavoidable weight and duration of the burdens to be imposed; having never been a proselyte to the… — James Madison

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