Debts Quotes

178 quotes by 144 authors

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
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
Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of… — Karl Marx
In the penitentiary you learn this: don't lie. Don't lie, man. If someone catches you in a lie you leave yourself open to get snuffed.… — Charles Manson
It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one. — Lord Byron
I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your… — Charles Lamb
A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated. — Leo Tolstoy
And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his… — Plato
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we… — Ta-Nehisi Coates
The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts. — Henry Ford
After Daskalos returned to his armchair and was getting ready to continue our discussion I asked him whether the affliction of that man was due… — Unknown Author
I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts. — Sebastian Pinera
The debts we owe ourselves are the hardest to pay. — George Meredith
If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within… — Heber J. Grant
Industry pays debts, while despair increases them. — Benjamin Franklin
Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts. — Philip Sidney
Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making while others are only good… — Jean-Francois Lyotard
Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but His… — Thomas Brooks
Most of our businesses do succeed, but if something completely fails, then as long as we bow out gracefully and pay off all our debts,… — Richard Branson
Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts. — Arthur Twining Hadley

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