National Debt Quotes
57 quotes by 46 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt.
— George W. Bush
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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
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I think if we give Glenn Beck the numbers, he can solve this [the national debt].
— Michele Bachmann
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In FY 2006, interest payments alone on the national debt cost us $406 billion. . . . What a waste. . . . That $406…
— Bill Press
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Posterity does not pay off anything of the national debt. Each administration adds to the debt left to it, and the promise of liquidation implied…
— Frank Chodorov
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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