Debts Quotes

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No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence. — Thomas Jefferson
Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to… — Carter Glass
When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts. — Joyce Meyer
If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or… — Benjamin Franklin
The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts. — Hal Boyle
As far as the gambling debts on there, not one cent was any type of sports betting. It's just something obviously I'm not proud of… — Darren McCarty
What is it about maps and globes that seems to require our undivided attention? I've spent hours looking at maps of places I will never… — Dan Kieran
True greatness means that, even if you forget what you've done for others, you never forget what others have done for you. It means always… — Josei Toda
Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath… — Benjamin Franklin
Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms. — Lucas Papademos
Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them. — Ogden Nash
My final word, before I'm done, Is "Cancer can be rather fun"- Provided one confronts the tumour with a sufficient sense of humour. I know… — John B. S. Haldane
The state incurs debts for politics, war, and other higher causes and 'progress'. . . . The assumption is that the future will honour this… — Jacob Burckhardt
To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones. — George Washington
The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is… — Winston Churchill
..avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts,… — George Washington
We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home,… — James Black
Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality-you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions.… — Alexander Hamilton
Survival means the survival of human kind as a whole, not just a part of it. If the South cannot survive, then the North is… — Nhat Hanh
There is a portent of stormy weather ahead to which we had better give heed...No one knows when emergencies will strike...Set your houses in order.… — Gordon B. Hinckley

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