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Debts Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.
- To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the purpose of providing…
- The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed him in that…
- 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…
- We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat…
More Debts Quotes
- We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. — John Buchan
- I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your… — David Cameron
- When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle… — Camilo Jose Cela
- When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not intend to… — Unknown Author
- With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of the war… — J. William Fulbright
- Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's… — Roger Moore
- Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
- Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang Köhler. I need not emphasize my… — Kurt Lewin
- Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ… — James Madison
- Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized… — Thomas Paine
- It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- He that sells upon Credit expects to lose 5 per Cent. By bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon… — Benjamin Franklin