Debt Quotes

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of. — Josh Billings
Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime. — Benjamin Disraeli
There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice. — Plutarch
Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their… — Thomas Jefferson
Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him… — Clarence Budington Kelland
Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, 'I am here because of you. It is your sin I am… — John Stott
We were so young, so in love, and so in debt. — Michelle Obama
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
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

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