Debt Quotes

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Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. — Herbert Hoover
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. — Victor Hugo
And the trajectory that our debt is taking now beyond $14 trillion is going to have an impact on our currency. It goes south, and… — Jon Huntsman, Jr.
We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back. — Lee Iacocca
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt. — Henrik Ibsen
People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways,… — Jesse Jackson
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 wars… — Thomas Jefferson
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. — Thomas Jefferson
I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to… — Jewel
I live in Vegas, and I see people by the side of the road with cardboard signs who seem like they might have tried that… — Penn Jillette
Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon;… — Samuel Johnson
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is… — Carl Jung
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. — Carl Jung
New Zealand as a whole needs to save more, spend less and reduce our reliance on foreign debt. — John Key
What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its… — Stephen King
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in… — Rudyard Kipling
I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and… — Shia LaBeouf
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the… — Charles Lamb
Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation… — James Lankford
We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater… — Romeo LeBlanc
If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation. — Rush Limbaugh
If you really want to get rid of the problems in the NFL, put Obama in charge of it: in a few months it will… — Rush Limbaugh
Republicans and Democrats are obsessed with making sure that illegal aliens are granted citizenship. The American people are not. They're concerned about jobs, the economy,… — Rush Limbaugh
Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for five months while I was… — John Lydon
All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not… — James Madison

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