National Debt Quotes

57 quotes by 46 authors

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay… — Thomas Jefferson
When George Bush came into office, we had surpluses. And now we have half-a-trillion-dollar deficit annually. When George Bush came into office, our national debt… — Barack Obama
The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy. — W. C. Sellar
It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence, it answers most… — Alexander Hamilton
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt. — William Cobbett
My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt. — George W. Bush
No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case… — Thomas Paine
I think if we give Glenn Beck the numbers, he can solve this [the national debt]. — Michele Bachmann
In FY 2006, interest payments alone on the national debt cost us $406 billion. . . . What a waste. . . . That $406… — Bill Press
Posterity does not pay off anything of the national debt.Â Each administration adds to the debt left to it, and the promise of liquidation implied… — Frank Chodorov
Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had six major depressions… — Molly Ivins
His presidency ended more than a decade ago, but politicians, Democrat and Republican, still talk about Ronald Reagan. Al Gore has an ad noting that… — Unknown Author
We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight… — John Spratt
The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual revision… — Russell Kirk
I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch… — Andrew Jackson
The problem is that the way [President] Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the… — Barack Obama
I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's a form of… — Mike Lee
I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt;… — Thomas Jefferson
Our national debt after all is an internal debt owed not only by the Nation but to the Nation. If our children have to pay… — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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